The phrase "a higher bonus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an increase in the amount of a bonus, typically in a work or financial context.
Example: "After the successful completion of the project, the team was rewarded with a higher bonus than last year."
Alternatives: "an increased bonus" or "a larger bonus".
"I have students in class ask me why I didn't earn a higher bonus," Ms. Krieger said.
Because the UBS accord would make life easier for the financial sector, the Socialists are demanding that banks accept greater regulation and a higher bonus tax.
When Ziyaee finds a place with a higher bonus, he will either try to contact people from that area online, or by physically driving there, depending on distance.
In the case of the former Wall Street analyst, he brought a lawsuit against Bear Stearns in late 1999 in which he said his supervisor suggested he perform a sex act in exchange for a higher bonus.
But when we included a task that required even rudimentary cognitive skill, the outcome was the same as in the India study: the offer of a higher bonus led to poorer performance.
Lewin, who now runs a company offering "financial crisis" tours of Wall Street, says if you pitch too low a number, colleagues might scent failure: Lippmann extracted a higher bonus after complaining that the bank's initial offer of $50m was too low.
About a third of the subjects were told they'd be given a small bonus, another third were promised a medium-level bonus, and the last third could earn a high bonus.
We replicated these results in a study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where undergraduate students were offered the chance to earn a high bonus ($600) or a lower one ($60) by performing one task that called for some cognitive skill (adding numbers) and another one that required only a mechanical skill (tapping a key as fast as possible).
In contrast, the performance-based component of pay, i.e., bonus, is important to induce a high effort level from workers in the current period, which implies a high bonus during booms.
Not surprisingly, firms with a higher fraction of bonuses on total pay in 2007 were more likely to use this margin of adjustment during the 2009 crisis: the estimated probability of cutting flexible pay as the main adjustment strategy is 21.3% for a high-bonus firm, compared with 13.7% in the baseline.
"In a traditional big company you incentivise people by giving them promotions, by giving them a 7% raise instead of a 5% raise, by giving them a slightly higher bonus.
