{"id":2870,"date":"2017-12-13T20:49:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T20:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2017-12-13T20:51:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T20:51:27","slug":"nearly-34-of-tech-employees-say-they-didnt-receive-a-signing-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/nearly-34-of-tech-employees-say-they-didnt-receive-a-signing-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 3\/4 of Tech Employees Say They Didn&#8217;t Receive a Signing Bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Signing bonus? What signing bonus?<\/p>\n<p>Seventy-one percent of workers in tech were not given a signing bonus when they joined their current employer, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/101-when-you-were-hired-at-your-current-job-what-was-the-cash-amount-of-your-signing-bonus\">ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>. More than 10,000 people from across the tech industry responded to the query.<\/p>\n<p><b>An overwhelming majority<\/b><\/p>\n<p>While most people did not receive a signing bonus,\u00a0the most common amount among those who did was between $1,000 and $5,000 (10%). The least popular amounts were under $1,000 (6%), between $5,000 and $10,000 (6%) and over $10,000 (7%).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2871 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/signing.jpg\" alt=\"signing\" width=\"701\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/signing-300x80.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/signing.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>No difference between men and women<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The breakdown of responses was nearly identical across genders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/101-when-you-were-hired-at-your-current-job-what-was-the-cash-amount-of-your-signing-bonus\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2872\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2872 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/MOT.jpg\" alt=\"MOT\" width=\"540\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/MOT-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/MOT.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 85vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>By ethnicity<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The group most likely to say they didn&#8217;t receive a signing bonus was Caucasians (78%). The group most likely to say they received some sort of signing bonus was African Americans (56%).<\/p>\n<p>Caucasians<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2878 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/cauc.jpg\" alt=\"cauc\" width=\"340\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/cauc-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/cauc.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 85vw, 340px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>African Americans<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2879 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/af.jpg\" alt=\"af\" width=\"339\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/af-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/af.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 339px) 85vw, 339px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>The departments most\/least likely to receive signing bonuses<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Out of every department, people in IT and HR were most likely to say they didn&#8217;t receive a signing bonus (84% and 83% respectively). People in finance were most likely to receive a signing bonus &#8212; 26% said they received up to $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>IT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/101-when-you-were-hired-at-your-current-job-what-was-the-cash-amount-of-your-signing-bonus\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2873\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2873 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/IT-low.jpg\" alt=\"IT-low\" width=\"344\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/IT-low-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/IT-low.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 344px) 85vw, 344px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HR<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2875 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/HR.jpg\" alt=\"HR\" width=\"340\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/HR-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/HR.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 85vw, 340px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finance<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2874 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/fin.jpg\" alt=\"fin\" width=\"340\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/fin-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/fin.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 85vw, 340px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest figures are as of Dec. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signing bonus? What signing bonus? Seventy-one percent of workers in tech were not given a signing bonus when they joined their current employer, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. More than 10,000 people from across the tech industry responded to the query. An overwhelming majority While most people did not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/nearly-34-of-tech-employees-say-they-didnt-receive-a-signing-bonus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,65],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2882,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions\/2882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}