Timeline for In what countries/programs is a graduate student bonus common?
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| Dec 16, 2020 at 0:02 | comment | added | Jon Custer | The Netherlands also, or at least in the early 90's when I was a post-doc there. | |
| Dec 15, 2020 at 12:46 | comment | added | sTertooy | @ArnaudD. What you are talking about is actually a different bonus. In May/June, one gets a "vacation bonus" (pécule de vacances/vakantiegeld), and in December one gets an "end of your bonus" (prime de fin d'année/eindejaarspremie). As a PhD student at a Flemish university, I received both bonuses. | |
| Dec 15, 2020 at 10:19 | comment | added | Arnaud D. | During my PhD in Belgium (with FNRS Fellowship) I had a bonus like that, but it was usually considered as a"vacation bonus" and paid at the end of May. | |
| Dec 15, 2020 at 9:42 | comment | added | Bromind | @UJM this definitely does not apply to phd students in France. The only exception I might think of, and I'm not even sure it is the case, is for industry/private funded phds (a.k.a. CIFRE). | |
| Dec 15, 2020 at 1:52 | comment | added | xngtng | In Switzerland, 13th salary is also common. However, the contract usually specifies the total annual compensation to be paid in 13 installments so nothing is really "bonus". | |
| Dec 14, 2020 at 22:41 | comment | added | UJM | The same concept exists in France and is common in industry jobs. I am not sure it applies to university-funded PhD students though. | |
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| Dec 14, 2020 at 18:41 | history | answered | HolKann | CC BY-SA 4.0 |