What is the situation of year-end awards in various countries?

How do countries issue year-end awards? The per capita income of large Japanese enterprises is 50,000, and 60% of American adults hang eggs.

Looking forward to the stars, looking forward to the moon, and finally looking forward to the year-end award.

Recently, the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (hereinafter referred to as "the Federation of Economic Organizations") announced the final results of the 20 17 year-end awards for large enterprises.

The respondents were companies with more than 500 employees listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange, among which 158 companies gave feedback.

According to these feedbacks, the Youth League Committee reached the final result: in 20 17 years, the average year-end bonus of Japanese large enterprises was 88,793 yen (about RMB 5 1 10,000 yuan), which was 0.0 1% higher than last year.

Among them, the construction industry has the highest bonus, which is1257,353 yen (about 73,000 yuan). The second place is the food industry, which is 3.77% less than last year, but the amount is still as high as 10 15996 yen. The automobile industry ranked third with 976,5438+0,070 yen, a decrease of 65,438+0.94% compared with last year.

This spring, large-scale manufacturing industries such as automobiles raised their basic wages, thus lowering their requirements for bonuses; On the other hand, due to the shortage of manpower in the construction and hotel industries, bonuses have increased.

Bonuses of Japanese companies are generally distributed to all employees in summer and winter, and the single amount is similar to the monthly salary. The average sum of summer bonus of 20 17 is similar to that of winter bonus. ?

So, what are the year-end awards in other countries? Do they all implement GSP like Japan?

United States of America

Americans' income mainly comes from basic salary, so most people don't expect much from the year-end bonus.

Less than 40% companies in the United States will give their employees year-end bonuses, usually in the middle of June 5438+February every year, which is also commonly known as "Christmas bonuses".

Generally speaking, the middle and senior managers of the company get more year-end awards, with senior managers accounting for more than 50% of the annual salary and middle managers accounting for about 5% ~ 10% of the annual salary. The year-end bonus of ordinary employees is less than 3% of the annual salary.

Of course, this is only the pre-tax amount. According to the American tax system, employees usually pay 25% tax from the year-end bonus, and employees whose bonus exceeds $654.38+$00,000 pay 35% tax.

However, besides Christmas or New Year, American companies also have holiday bonuses for other festivals.

Most holiday bonuses are paid in the form of cash or gift certificates, with an average amount of $300 to $500, but some companies also give them in the form of direct supply, such as clothes or fruit baskets. Some companies also offer paid holidays as holiday rewards.

Generally speaking, year-end bonus and holiday bonus are calculated separately, because the former is based on the performance of employees, and the latter is a gift to express gratitude and appreciation to employees.

Germany

German year-end bonus, also known as "Christmas bonus", is said to have originated from the footwear industry.

At first, the shoe factory owner gave leather to employees before Christmas, and asked them to make a pair of new shoes for themselves or their families at Christmas. Later, it gradually developed into today's Christmas bonus.

However, whether or not to issue Christmas bonuses and the amount of bonuses vary from enterprise to enterprise, but they can all be determined in writing through industry or enterprise labor agreements and work contracts.

Generally speaking, Christmas bonuses are usually paid together with 1 1 monthly salary. If the company's business had been put away, the Christmas bonus would have been higher than the monthly salary. If the income is poor, the amount will be appropriately reduced or even cancelled.

There are also some companies that stipulate that employees who resign for their own reasons within a certain period after receiving the year-end bonus are obliged to return the Christmas bonus.

However, if the company has been issuing year-end bonuses and suddenly cancels them for no reason in a certain year, even if there is no written stipulation that the company will definitely issue year-end bonuses, it may cause legal disputes.

Australia

In Australia, not all enterprises have year-end awards.

For the year-end bonus, the more generous industries are insurance companies, banks and hotels. The amount is usually equivalent to the annual salary of employees for half a year, and some even equal to the annual salary.

As for the employees of general enterprises, it is enough to get a reward or gift certificate of 1000 to 2000 Australian dollars at the end of the year because of their good treatment at ordinary times. In addition, some "institutions" or non-profit organizations have no year-end awards at all.