NEW: following the flop of Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt board members are set to receive huge bonuses ranging from $4 to $6 million. Meanwhile, some employees say they got lower bonuses than expected because the board wouldn’t delay the game: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-04-30/cyberpunk-managers-still-win-big-bonuses-after-shoddy-game-launch
Employees said their bonuses ranged from $5k to $20k. A CDPR spokesman said the average was ~$34k. Staff had expected more for their first big game in 5 years, and the bonuses, tied to profit-sharing, would have been far higher if Cyberpunk hadn't been such a mess at launch
A CDPR spokesman told me that they'd allocated $29.8 million for bonuses to 865 employees.
CDPR allocated $28 million for bonuses to 5 board members.
CDPR allocated $28 million for bonuses to 5 board members.
I did hear some good news out of Poland this week, though. One CDPR employee told me that following Bloomberg's reporting and many internal reviews and complaints, the company did a salary reevaluation and bumped up wages for some of the company's lowest-paid staff including QA.
On a CD Projekt earnings call, someone asked if these executive bonuses were "appropriate." Here's the full question and co-CEO Adam Kiciński's full response. Kiciński is set to receive a $6.3 million bonus