Featured Job Survey Results: Bonus Timing

Last month, our ATL / Lateral Link job survey asked you when your firms paid bonuses, and whether you were planning on changing jobs once those bonuses got paid. About 900 of you responded (and got to see bonus and survey breakdowns for Los Angeles as a reward).
Not surprisingly, most of you in major cities reported that your firms paid bonuses by the end of the year. Associates in Atlanta, Charlotte, Philadelphia and Seattle, however, were more likely to be screwed in for a longer wait.
After the jump, poll results broken down by city, plus stats on how bonus timing is, or isn’t, affecting your decisions to stay.


When does your firm pay bonus?

Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. March April Never
Atlanta 16% 16% 21% 37% 11%
Boston 6% 53% 21% 9% 6% 6%
Charlotte 25% 42% 17% 17%
Chicago 2% 39% 14% 27% 12% 2% 4%
LA 1% 65% 15% 11% 7% 2%
NY 2% 52% 24% 17% 4% 1%
Philadelphia 21% 11% 37% 21% 11%
Bay Area 44% 13% 31% 8% 4%
Seattle 33% 17% 50%
Texas 41% 44% 11% 4%
DC 50% 23% 14% 8% 2% 3%
Other 6% 48% 15% 20% 6% 1% 4%

Will you leave after you get your bonus?

Breakdown By City

Yes No I’d leave
right now.
I’d leave
for a match.
Other
Atlanta 10% 55% 15% 10% 10%
Boston 17% 63% 2% 5% 12%
Charlotte 7% 79% 14%
Chicago 15% 64% 12% 3% 5%
LA 7% 74% 4% 6% 9%
NY 16% 72% 6% 5% 2%
Philadelphia 19% 67% 10% 5%
Bay Area 13% 61% 11% 4% 13%
Seattle 33% 67%
Texas 17% 73% 7% 3%
DC 9% 74% 9% 3% 5%
Other 9% 67% 14% 3% 7%

Breakdown By Bonus Timing

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Yes No I’d leave
right now.
I’d leave
for a match.
Other
November 29% 57% 14%
December 15% 73% 7% 2% 3%
January 10% 77% 6% 5% 2%
February 14% 69% 7% 6% 4%
March 8% 68% 5% 10% 8%
April 15% 69% 8% 8%
Never 15% 23% 38% 15% 8%

Earlier: Featured Job Survey: Bonus Timing and Lateral Moves

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