General Motors is likely to spend more than $500 million on employee bonuses and profit-sharing based on the company’s record profit in 2011. GM, which has a truck plant in Allen County and a foundry in Defiance, Ohio, will pay bonuses of at least $182 million to white-collar workers such as engineers, car designers and managers on Wednesday, according to a formula obtained by The Associated Press. That’s on top of $332.5 million in profit-sharing it agreed to pay factory workers.
In the past, such payments have drawn criticism from those who believe the government shouldn’t have bailed out GM and Chrysler. But GM, which made $7.6 billion last year, says the payments are needed to retain skilled employees. It’s also keeping fixed costs down by giving bonuses instead of annual pay raises.
The bonuses will go to most of the company’s 26,000 salaried employees, many of whom make more than $100,000 a year. The bonuses will range from 8 percent of base pay to 14 percent, according to the formula….
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