'actual incentive' is correct and usable in written English.
It is most often used to refer to a real motivating factor that is often financial or material in nature. For example, "The company's actual incentive to increase employee productivity was a small bonus at the end of the month."
Simon suggests a Baltimore state attorney would have to make the move: "Take away the actual incentive to do bad or useless police work, which is what the drug war has become".
"They did walk away with a ton of data on lots of different cities, but in terms of the actual incentive dollars for HQ2, it's not that much," said Nathan Jensen, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin who studies incentive packages.
It gives people an actual incentive to check in that is altruistic and makes them feel good.
It added an actual incentive, other than, "Haha, dickhead, you haven't finished the game unless you've done all this other stuff". .
Moreover, those who start the wave of shaming have an actual incentive to do so -- they gain popularity and standing in the digital community, see exponential Klout growth, and expand their base of followers dramatically.
In this light, it is encouraging that the actual incentive payments comprised less than 30% of total program costs.
This is particularly true when our responsibilities are not aligned with the actual incentives in place.
But stated goals and the actual incentives that prison policy promote turn out to be two very different things.
Ultimately the Trump policy appears to resemble the one Obama used to induce Iran into negotiations over its nuclear program — minus the participation of other world powers (especially Europe, China and Russia) or any actual incentives for Iran to re-engage in talks.
Using these data masks the actual incentives of institutional investors with respect to investments in any individual company or industry, since the returns to individual funds may depend on just one or a few, rather than all, of the industry stocks in the aggregate portfolio.
Others noted that there might not be actual incentives for all partners to participate, indicating moderate levels of congruence.
