Budgetary Council: 61% of all employees got bonuses

Last year 61 percent of all employees in Slovakia received bonuses, according to an estimate from the Budgetary Responsibility Council; an independent watchdog. "If we take this into account and look only at the people and months when the bonuses were paid, we will find that the average level of bonuses for the whole of last year was €530," the Council noted. Private employers pay the highest bonuses in the period after tax returns are filed, while those in the public sector do so at the end of the year. "In the private sector the average bonus spread over the entire year reaches €570, whereas in the public sector the average is €413. This difference may be related to the fact that there are no professions that include sales in the public sector. Sales is the area where the bonuses are part of the remuneration system," reads the commentary of the Budgetary Council.