Bonus Schemes

As we work across all market sectors, our work on bonus schemes covers a very wide area, with examples of what we do including:

  • Management and Sales Incentive Plans that define the rules of each scheme and the rewards that they will produce
  • Long Term Incentive Plans that seek transformational change, typically aimed at the most senior levels of management
  • Individual, team and organisational wide bonus schemes that are driven either by performance/achievement or the acquisition/display of competence (typically both technical and behavioural)
  • Recognition schemes that show, in a small way, that a special effort has been noticed and appreciated
  • Attendance schemes that reduce absence rates


The use of non-consolidation is a key part of such schemes and gives the employer much more scope to get full value from such ‘at risk’ payments – as they are generally consolidated to the organisation, but not the individual. This means that they need to be re-earned, which tends to keep performance up, but without any extra cost (as they were included in last year’s budget).