A goal for most of us is to one day be able to retire from our jobs and to have time for travel, hobbies, and whatever else we don’t get to do today because we’re busy earning a living. If we want to do these things, we have to carefully plan for our retirement. In this section we describe the...
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Gain Sharing Plans
Let’s take a look at gain sharing plans, a type of incentive plan. Gain sharing plans are designed to help increase an organization’s efficiency by increasing the productivity of the company’s employees and/or lowering the firm’s labor costs. Under these plans, employees earn a share of the gains...
Profit Sharing Plans
Under profit sharing plans, company profits are shared with employees. Profit sharing plans a group-level incentive plan in which company profits are shared with employees. Procedurally, profit sharing can be distributed to employees as cash or can be deferred. Under a deferred profit sharing...