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Can someone please explain what is “SUPPLEMENTARY allowance” in my payslip??? It is the highest in my entire payslip, more than basic salary. Basic is lets say ₹7 lac annually and supplementary bonus is ₹7 lac 40 thousand.
Can someone please explain why this exists in my paylslip, is it good or bad from tax perspective and shall I ask my HR to decrease it???
Please help asap.
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I wouldn’t say dumb, but your bonus isn’t overtime obviously. It’s performance based… If you worked 42 hours a week (assuming 50 working weeks), for example, and received a $2,000 bonus that equates to $20/hour by your logic… however maybe you weren’t meeting performance expectations and someone who worked 40 hours a week and was a high performer received $10k.
Outcomes matter more than outputs. I’m not saying you are a low performer or anything like that. What I am saying is I could care less about how many hours someone works when thinking about their bonus. I only care about the work product that is delivered.
Fair points raised.
If wanting to compare yours to someone at another company, I think they would tell you
Their bonus was a lump sum payment, which is X % of gross pay for the year.
Say your payment was $8,000
Divided by your annual gross $150,000
Times 100 to get a percentage is 5.33 %
So, that’s higher than inflation, congrats!
And it’s higher than most I heard about last year.
Hey that's fair. Thank you for the feedback it makes me feel a little bit better.
It's the amount of the bonus paid to you in every hour of hour of work. I don't think it's lousy. $14 is what others earn for their basic pay. How was your bonus calculated? Because bonus are mostly performance-based.
I'm around $75/hour but salaried
I'd be happy to have a bonus in the first place...
All the managers got the same amount of bonus.
We each worked an average of 50+ hours / week.
Some probably worked more hours than I did.
If all managers got the same then it is not hour based and just might be a “manager” bonus split equally across all managers. You could ask them.
Bonuses, in my experience, are not individual performance based, but band based (where your position sits on the totem pole). Raises tend to focus on individual performance.