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by boguscoder 26 days ago
Any bonus is better than no bonus but averages are deceiving. Maybe VPs would get 10m and line workers 10k ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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My understanding of the article is that it affects actual chip workers, since it’s the union of those workers that will be affected.
Is your understanding that the VPs are in the same union as the line workers? That would be... interesting. I do not believe that is the case.
Yeah give me the median
Not all workers will fare equally. As an illustration, Reuters cited a union source estimating that someone in the memory chip unit earning an 80-million-won base salary could take home roughly 626 million won in total bonuses this year. By comparison, workers at SK Hynix stand to collect upward of 700 million won should their employer post annual profit of 250 trillion won, Reuters calculated. Unlike at Samsung, SK Hynix employees are not limited to stock payouts and may instead opt for cash, Reuters reported.

Almost 6x the base, not bad.

They probably had to fight hard to get it and stick together…
right here in good ol USA, workers are getting laid off. Plenty of folks will be happy without a bonus right now if they could just have a job.