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Annual Discretionary Bonus Program
Annual Discretionary Bonus Program contract clause examples

Bonus. The Employee shall be eligible for an annual performance bonus (the “Bonus”). The Bonus is a discretionary bonus, payable in either cash compensation or stock option award or a combination of both, at the sole discretion of the Board, that can be modified and is subject to review and annual approval by the Board. The Employee must be employed by the Company on the last day of the fiscal year for which the Bonus is earned. The Bonus will be paid to the Employee no later than March 14th of the year following the year in which the Bonus is earned.

Bonus. For calendar year 2016 and each subsequent calendar year that ends during the Term, Employee will be eligible to receive an annual performance-based cash bonus (the “Annual Bonus”). The payment and amount of any Annual Bonus will be determined by the Board or the Compensation Committee thereof (excluding Employee, if then a Board member), in its sole and absolute discretion, pursuant to the Company’s Executive Annual Incentive Plan or another bonus plan established by the Company, and conditioned upon the achievement of mutually agreed upon objectives for Employee and for the Company established at the beginning of each calendar year, with a target Annual Bonus equal to sixty percent (60%) of the Base Salary for achievement of 100% of the performance objectives. Any dispute regarding whether Employee has met the objectives shall be determined by the Board or the Compensation Committee thereof (excluding Employee, if then a Board member) in the exercise of its sole discretion.

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