#bonus

Getting word that layoffs will be ramping up before corporate bonuses are set to be announced and paid out. If you are let go before the bonus actually hits your direct deposit, then you will get absolutely nothing for enduring last year. Heads up and brace yourself for once again another large round of layoffs. Meanwhile, all the VPs and above are getting extra perks their way (trips, special luxury gifts, stock).
Additionally, if you are fortunate enough to stay, your annual compensation review will probably be on existing since they’ve forced all management to not give high employee reviews to prevent low incentive increase and lowest bonus payouts.

For most of us…our last cash from Vz. I’ll miss these. Spend wisely. 💰

Somewhat new to this company, what do they mean by 35% bonus. Is this 35% of the normal budget for bonus? Forgive the d-mb question, not all familiar with this.

No COLA, no more bonuses, and now 0.75% raise. While they continue to rack in millions for senior leadership.

Dan, CWA, and IBEW better work it out and get us some real bonuses/profit sharing. This garbage we have shares nothing.

Any idea on what bonus and PDR raises will look like?

For those of us who were recently impacted by the layoffs, does anyone have clarity on whether we should expect to receive our annual bonus next month?

I remember my manager mentioning that bonuses would be paid out sometime in March, but I’m not sure how that applies to employees who were laid off before the payout date.

If we were cut today do we still get our bonus?

Like the title says, any info on this year's IBP modifier? I need some good news today

I had my annual performance review yesterday morning.
I had 6 goals last year.
I got a 4 on 5 of them and a 5 on 1 of them.
I got a 3 overall and thus no raise and my bonus was greatly reduced from what I would have gotten had I gotten a 4 overall.
Make it make sense!

ICYMI - In another attempt to drive the morale of the WTS sales employees into the ground, it has been rumored that the once prestige honor of making President’s Club is no longer an option. The service and hardware increases were not enough to drive comp down. Now they are taking it all back, very slowly.

However, other divisions like CSG now run by PK will celebrate their successful reps at Baha Mar in the Bahamas.

Apparently this was the decision of Mason Olds. Safe to say that he is making quite the impression on the WTS reps with a bold move like this.

Canon has truly turned their back on the reps of WTS.

The timing is not a coincidence: Verizon is essentially funding the start of that $25 billion buyback program with the savings from those 15,000 employees.
The "Cost Transformation" Math

In late 2025, Dan Schulman launched what he called a "cost transformation." Here is how the numbers connect:

The Layoffs: Verizon cut roughly 13,000 to 15,000 positions (about 15% of their workforce). This was the largest workforce reduction in the company's history.

The Savings: Management told investors these cuts, along with AI automation and switching company-owned stores to franchises, will save the company roughly $5 billion per year in operating expenses.

The Buyback: They then announced a plan to spend at least $3 billion on share buybacks in 2026.

Essentially, they are taking the money saved from 15,000 salaries and handing it directly to Wall Street.
Why this fuels the "Bonus" argument

You mentioned the concern about Dan Schulman’s bonus, and the layoffs add a specific layer to that:

Efficiency Ratios: CEO bonuses are often tied to "Operating Margin" or "Free Cash Flow per Share." By cutting 15,000 people, the "cost to run the business" drops instantly, making Schulman look like an efficiency genius on paper.

EPS Manipulation: As we discussed, buybacks reduce the share count to boost Earnings Per Share (EPS). When you combine massive cost-cutting (which raises the "Earnings" part) with buybacks (which lowers the "Shares" part), the EPS growth looks explosive.

The "New Sheriff" Strategy: Schulman is using the classic "Kitchen Sink" approach—take all the painful hits (layoffs, massive severance charges of $1.8 billion) in his first few months so that 2026 and 2027 look like a massive "recovery" that he can take credit for.

The Human vs. Financial Cost
The Wall Street View The Real World View
"Leaner and Scrappier": Analysts cheer the $5 billion in savings as a way to protect the 6% dividend. Morale & Service: Cutting 15% of the staff (mostly middle management) often leads to worse customer service and slower technical fixes.
"Capital Discipline": Returning cash shows they aren't wasting money on "ego projects." The Human Toll: 15,000 families lost income while the company "found" $25 billion for its own stock.

NO GROWTH NO STRATEGY JUST BIG FAT CATS

Any rumors on what bonus payout will look like ? I’m over due for a promotion but it looks like this year will be another year of waiting.

Ask co pilot what GK’s target bonus is for this year.

Putting this out here now for those of us who try to survive another year. Expect that merit will continue to be extremely minimal, and the company will move to more of a bonus/LTI system.
When they pay larger merit, they have to keep up with those increases year over year regardless of profits. If I give you a $5000 raise, I am now committed to paying you at least that salary as long as you’re around. Now multiply that times thousands of employees.
A bonus however is one time. I’m only committed to that amount THIS year.
LTI is worse, I promise to pay if you stay for 3 years, but if I lay you off, I’m freed from that obligation.

So expect the company to continue to lean heavier on bonus and LTI (aka paying it out at 90-100%), versus seeing larger merit pools going forward.

Three team members were displaced a couple of weeks ago.
After bonus payout, 3 out of 4 senior team members resigned.
Made my day

If award statements are supposed to be available Friday, when will we know AIP enterprise multiplier!?

How's your raise and bonus?

5 - 22%
4 - 21%
3 - 20%

There’s basically no incentive to do anything other than the bare minimum.

Rob Del Bene finance guy got a big increase to $6million package. See below His base salary got raised to $800k, he got 401k payments, bonuses, and a load of other....

Just think a bonuses of 135% of base salary thats around $1.1 bonus for shrinking the company, good work if you can get it.

From his contract

2.Effective as of April 1, 2025, your base salary will be increased to $800,000 per year, and shall be payable in accordance with the Company’s normal U.S. payroll practices.

3.Effective as of April 1, 2025, your target annual bonus under the Company’s annual incentive plan will be increased to 135% of your base salary.

Does anyone know if/when those who received stock as part of bonus will receive or see shares?

When will we “who EOI’ed” get our part of the 2025 bonus? Paid in 2026?

Any news on layoffs/RIFs? Bonus/Raise? Hoping the Client Management/Sales area is taking less of a beating but I doubt it.

just heard of two executive level managers were let go in digital, long term folks, wow! at least they got their bonus’s

Has anyone received anything? It’s suppose to be available this week and no one on our teams have heard anything.

I know many of us have opinions...

NO bonuses this year. 2026 will be worse than 2025. Layoffs are going from quarterly to now every other month. This part has not been confirmed, but rumor is that Optum is going away and only UHC will remain.

This Friday when I have my performance evaluation, if I do not get a merit (haven’t had one in two years) I am totally giving up on my work ethic. I can no longer let this team think this is okay and that I will continue to work hard. At this point I’m blaming direct manager and above them. I’m tired of us always blaming this man behind the curtain. Our managers are agreeing to this and they are at fault at this point too. Them just agreeing and going on with their day while they get $20k bonuses means they are at fault. I suggest you blame them too.

Remember the Pay for Performance statement? Them were the days! You could see well in advance your AIP and the date it was being deposited. At this point so far into February, I am not even sure we are getting AIP this year. And no, trolls, I am not betting the farm on AIP or planning on a single cent. I just realized we had not received it yet and in the good old days we always had it first week of February. RIP Pay for Performance statement, I made fun of you at the time, but now I realize you were actually good transparency. Don't even get me started on the olden era of quarterly profit sharing. I am still going down with this ship, but have to marvel nearly daily how Good to Great has gone from Great to Ghastly.

But your raise will still be 2-3% maximum and bonus will be pennies on the dollar and taxed at 50%

when is corporate bonus payout date. i didn’t get it yet

The management and executives here are untrustworthy. They've broken just about every rule and unwritten rule possible with directs. They're the type who give you prop's the entire year and then give you a bad year end review so they can cheat you on your bonus to make some budget number. As a shareholder i've super disappointed in the place and plan to sell my stock holding in this company, and its a sizeable figure.

Did we hit our targets, and will that stock still vest for 2025/26? Or is that uncertain now?

I’m expecting 105 PBUS and 95 FLUS. With all the changes, that’s one thing we should be able to count on.

Anybody know what it is this year? It's usually published by now...

What’s the norm or expectation when it comes annual bonus? I figured given the current position of Williams it would be higher. What am I missing?

Any news on bonus or merits? Got a whole team asking here and ready to walk out unless they get proper pay. The last 2 to 3 years has been nauseous at best and running out of excuses. Lost 2 strong managers already to National and Sixt.