We provide holiday bonuses to our entire firm each year (before Christmas) but want to be sure we are keeping pace with other family law firms. What do you receive for holiday bonuses, when, and in what size firm and market are you located? If you're a managing partner, what metrics or percentages do you use to determine bonuses? Happy Holidays!

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2 attorney firm in nor cal. We have 3 staff. We give our office manager ~$10k (her salary is $90k before bonus) and legal assistants $2k-$3k (they make about $50k before bonus). We do them in early December each year. We up or lower the bonuses based on firm profits but typically the bonuses go up $500 to $1000 per employee each year.

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