Not only executives benefit from variable remuneration models.
More and more skilled workers and even young professionals are negotiating an extra salary.
Anyone who puts time and effort into their work and always delivers top performance will also want to be rewarded in the end.
While the usual monthly salary payments hardly take the performance of employees into account, the
situation is
different
with a
variable remuneration model
: agreed special payments reward the individual success of employees and allow them to participate in a good company result.
Variable salary depending on gender, industry or company size
According to a current study by
Salary.de
and Statista, around
16 percent of
all employees
in Germany already receive
a bonus
.
Ascending trend.
And that doesn't just include executives, as many may mistakenly assume.
Even skilled workers and even young professionals benefit from the extra salary in many companies.
And that is impressive, as the figures from the study show.
The differences in the variable remuneration are huge, sadly, especially in terms of gender: While men receive an annual variable salary of
an average of
8,761 euros
, women can expect a significantly lower bonus payment of 3,785 euros.
Regions, industries, company size and hierarchy level also play a decisive role in the amount of bonus payments.
In the
telecommunications, financial services, banking, management consultancy & semiconductor
industries
,
the proportion of employees who receive variable remuneration is between 30 and 40 percent.
There are significantly less bonus payments in the handicrafts, in social institutions and in the food retail trade.
The difference in the amount of variable remuneration becomes clear when you consider the size of the company:
Companies with over 1,000 employees:
9,400 euros
Companies with 100 to 1,000 employees:
6,700 euros
Companies with up to 100 employees:
5,000 euros
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Variable remuneration: what does it look like?
During salary negotiations
Variable remuneration can be a good compromise: If there is no increase in salary, a bonus agreement can be made instead.
The percentage of the profit or performance-related bonus can usually be negotiated individually with the employer.
According to the personnel service provider
Robert Half
, variable remuneration components
between 5 and 20 percent are
common - but this varies depending on the industry and hierarchy level.
Companies usually offer their employees a bonus that is made up of individual performance and company results.
Possible goals can be very different, they are often based on business indicators.
According to experts,
concrete, measurable results should be
specified
in the employment contract or in the target agreement
, with a bonus payment.
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