Only 11% of employers eye giving 100% of staff salary as bonus

Bosses are getting more conservative.

It has been found that 11 percent of employers will award 100 per cent of staff salary as a bonus.

According to a release from Hays, further, based on its recently released 2015 Hays Asia Salary Guide, another 11 per cent of employers will award between 51 and 99 per cent of staff salary as a bonus.

The majority of employers however are far more conservative, with 44 percent offering between 11 and 50 percent of staff salary as a bonus, and the final 34 percent offering a bonus equal to less than 10 percent of staff salary.

Here's more from Hays:

“If you and your company are performing well there is a good chance you have or will soon receive a competitive bonus,” says Christine Wright, Managing Director of Hays in Asia.

“The demand for highly skilled professionals is one reason why bonuses continue to remain popular. Employers who are unable to offer a significant salary increase to their top staff are also using bonuses as a way of rewarding, and hopefully retaining, their best people.

“This is very important in a tight candidate market,” she said.