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Bye Bye Bonus

Fresh off the presses: No scorecard this year, company-wide.

The board is about to approve the decision. That means no more numbers, which means they've effectively laid the groundwork for no more guaranteed bonus for all employees YOY.

This is effectively moving towards a distributed model, where you will be judged individually

  1. How much of your bonus will you get (already been happening last few years) and
  2. Now even if you will GET a bonus.

2026 off to a great start!


BNY Swag Box

Don’t forget to spend your measly little paycheck that doesn’t keep up with inflation on the all NEW BNY (no mellon) Swag vending machine located on floor 3 of Ross Street in PGH. Branded merchandise, whenever you need it :) I hope whoever came up with the idea loses their job, significant other, big toes and cat in the foreseeable future


VRP and 2025 Bonus

So, we need to confirm our participation in the VRP before 2025 bonus amounts are decided.

Seems to me that a manager would want to minimize bonus amounts for soon-to-retire employees and bolster those who will remain on.

Does anyone have any insight on how this is handled?


Are salaries heading down?

In the reorg last year every colleague that was not on the Standard pay scale had there job posted at a lower level. Essentially getting your same job back now has you maxed out on pay in the same Grade. Has there actually been any type of an overall pay scale increase besides the meager merit raises which have been taken away from most individuals?


Bonus 5% Mandatory Shares

For anyone not aware, it is mandatory that 5% of your bonus will be awarded in shares. Team members will only get told during their meeting. You get a minimum of 2 shares if you can't afford more.

Can anyone explain how this is calculated? E.g. if 5% of your bonus is taken for shares, but that is only enough for say 2.5 shares, how does it work? (What happens to the residual?)


Counteroffers for people thinking of leaving

I heard a rumor about someone in another department who was about to resign but then decided to stay. They mentioned getting a much better offer from the company to reconsider. Is that something that actually happens here at Exxon? I've never personally known anyone to get a retention offer like that, but I don't see why the guy would lie.


Can 2025 Bonus and/or Pay Increase still change?

Talking to my manager earlier this week about my imminent promotion, he warned me bonuses and pay bumps this year aren't as good as he had hoped and to calibrate expectations. Then he commented something like "who knows though, the pool is still changing and may change last minute"

Is that true? Do managers still not have a set amount of money to allocate to people? It's crazy to me that even now it could change.


Question for SMB Team | Post Comp Call

I don’t know if I’m gonna last much longer. As a top performing MAE, this new comp plan was rolled out so poorly. On top of all that, the data is beyond dirty.
I have so many accounts that should belong to Micro that roll to me (Duns even says 3 employees on SF record) Accounts that should roll to me that meet my headcount…going to Micro. I have other accounts HQ in completely different cities. One account I had a proposal out to last month is now assigned to Micro.
What in the actual F is going on. Several peers in other markets are just as upset,
Surely this cannot be planned attrition done covertly.
Thoughts?


How do bonus payouts work for layoffs in January

If you get laid off March through Dec, AFTER they paid you the bonus for the year before, HR will pay you a prorated amount of the bonus for the CURRENT year.

But people laid off in January or Februray, if your last working day is before the cutoff date (the date you have to be employed by to get your bonus for 2025), what happens then? Technically you are no longer employed at usb on 2/27/26 the cut off date.

DO they

  1. give you 100% of your target bonus from 2025 only (since there's nothing to prorate since 2025 is over)
  2. give you NOTHING for the whole year from 2025 and a small prorated bonus for 2026
  3. both of the above 1 and 2 combined

Ideally #3, but #1 would be ok also. But it better not be #2 because they would be f*d up.

If you think about it, if they lay you off in January and fk you over, you would have been paid more** if you were laid off late last year instead of early this year.

Anyone with an actual answer, not speculation peanut gallery, please reply. Thanks!


Pay range for levels have decreased according to current open positions

I noticed when looking at open jobs internally that the pay range for the level where I'm at is lower than what it was last year. These are positions in my current geographic location. My current salary is above the max for my level where last year it was slightly above midpoint. Has anyone noticed this? How are they going to approach salary increases?


Executive Comp Document no longer posted

I haven't seen the 2025 version of the executive compensation document posted online. It used to be updated annually at the below link, but it seems to have been scrubbed from the internet. Has anyone seen the latest, or know if it will be posted in 2026?

https://www.tiaa.org/public/pdf/e/exec_comp_policy.pdf


Capital Management Employees are Overpaid

Capital Management Employees are vastly overpaid $$$ compared to almost every other division in the company+

out of the 35+ people, almost all are EVPs, SVPs, or VPs+Raking in $250K-$400K per year or much more+All the extra employee comp & bonus money is being funneled over to Capital Management+They get quarterly bonuses unlike other employees in the company+That is not fair+Their jobs are easy with them relying on AI computer stock picks as they mimic those recommendations along with the analysts+It's time to rein in this area+Company could save $10M w/o Capital Management+Company would make more $$$ by having better performing outside funds with lower expense ratios but tacking on additional fees to drive revenue++too much bloat w/ Capital Management++Hardly anyone is investing in their institutional funds outside of retirement plans & they have spent a ton to get on various platforms+Assets are down over $1B YOY which is 7% of portfolio+Meanwhile, there are no layoffs & employees of that division keep getting new titles and big big salaries and raises.

this year, the vast majority of the funds are near the bottom of their peer rankings & only three funds are in the top 50%. So, 3 funds out of 28--off to a very rocky start in 2026--looks like it will be a down yr+time to cut salaries, perks, & jobs in that division+lots of favoritism going on there--------

Lipper awards were excellent but company couldn't find a way to get news out & more plans & money keeps leaving. WTF is going on ?

$$$$$
Morningstar
Total Return Rank in Category
YTD
(1 is best & 100 is worst)
MoA Core Bond Fund 98
MoA Clear Passage 2020 97
MoA Retirement Income 94
MoA Clear Passage 2045 92
MoA Clear Passage 2050 92
MoA Small Cap Growth Fund 92
MoA Clear Passage 2055 91
MoA Clear Passage 2060 91
MoA Clear Passage 2035 91
MoA Clear Passage 2025 89
MoA Clear Passage 2040 86
MoA Clear Passage 2065 85
MoA International 84
MoA Clear Passage 2030 83
MoA Mid Cap Growth Fund 81
MoA Conservative Allocatio.. 76
MoA Small Cap Equity Indx 76
MoA Clear Passage 2070 71


Counter Offer

As a people manager (UK) I have a low paid top performing team member, who is expected to be promoted next week, however her new salary increase looks miserable. If she gets offered a new job external for more money (which she can prob get easily), how easy/hard is it to get management approval to offer a counter offer to try retain her? (Also is there limits on much extra a counter offer can be).