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Anonymous
Bonus question. My MCOL-city regional firm used to give out discretionary bonuses to associates (typically $5-10k). Firm recently changed the bonus structure for future years – if you exceed minimum billable hours target by 10% more hours (i.e., 1800 instead of 1650), you get 2% of your collected total, and if you exceed minimum billable hours target by 20%, you get 4% of your collected total. I don’t find this particularly motivating, especially given there may be write offs. Does anyone else have a similar system/percentages?
Ellen
My manageing partner instituted 2 different incentive levels. One for associates and one for partners. As associates, we HAD to have met our billables to qualify for a bonus. If we did not, we got NADA. But if we met our billables, we got $10,000+ 5% of all billables above our required billables. It did not amount to much b/c we had to struggle to get our billabiles, and I challenge anyone in the hive who can get much over 7200 hours in any calendar year like we had to.
Now, as a partner, we are under a different system. Equity Partners get, in addition to their required equity share, an automatic $50,000 bonus even if they don’t meet their billeable quotas, which vary from partner to partner. We also get to keep 20% of all billables we collect over and above our quotas. We also have a new cleint bonus; and for me, I expect to receive as much as $150,000 over and above my base this year as a bonus b/c of me bringeing in 2 new cleints that were freinds with my dad from the home security business. Dad says he wants a cut, but that would be unethical. So I told him I would bake him a wedding chicken dinner. He was not happy. YAY Dad!