Audi Employees to Get EUR3,500 Bonus

The great results of past months in terms of units sold has resulted in enough money to allow German manufacturer Audi give its workforce, for the third time this year, a bonus. A bonus which at a company level will mean EUR97 million spent for bonuses.

The extra money will be paid not for this year, but for 2009's achievements, a year when, despite the economic crisis, Audi managed to stay in the black. At the end of this month, Audi workers will receive, on average, a EUR1,355 bonus.

“When the business situation is difficult we’re dependent on maximum effort from all our employees. So it’s only logical for us to share our success with them,” Werner Widuckel Audi's member of the board for Human Resources.

“We bucked the trend and were successful. Recognizing this exceptional performance promotes solidarity in the long term and encourages the company’s employees to master upcoming tasks with equal success,” added the chairman of the General Works Council, Peter Mosch.

The outlook for 2011 is even better, given Audi's current evolution. The carmaker sold 19.1 percent more vehicles in the first six months of the year than it did in the troubled 2009, meaning 554,950 units.

With China leading the way for Audi (61.6 percent increase, 21,436 units sold) and record after record broken for the Chinese market, Audi is on track, for the first time since 2008, of reaching and even surpassing the 1 million units sold target it set for itself in 2010.