At the end of each year when all Chinese firms have had their balance sheets made up showing profit or loss, all commercial employees get their respective share of the profits, if any. During the year, -the employees of the smallest grocers store up to the employees of the largest bank look forward to the coming of the Chinese New Year because it is then that they will receive their rewards according to their merit.
In. this country the bonus paid to the employees by the business concerns is very liberal, much more liberal than that paid to the employees of foreign firms. Sometimes an employee will get a bonus, the amount of which will exceed the total amount of his year's salary. For instance, the manager of a Chinese "native" bank gets only from $25 to $30 a month in salary, but if the bank makes money, at the end of the year his bonus will probably run" up to several thousand dollars.
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