Bloomberg has reported that bonuses may vary from $100,000 to $200,00. Some Apple engineers received additional special stock incentives as part of the company’s ongoing attempt to retain top engineers and prevent them from leaving.

Bloomberg reported on Friday that the incentives had been given to a limited group of employees in the company’s software and hardware engineering units in recent days. More than $200,000 worth of restricted stock units are available as a prize.
Bonuses of up to $200,000 have allegedly been given out by Apple in an effort to dissuade some of the company’s best technical talent from joining the competition. Since last year’s conclusion, the company has been making similar moves.
Bonuses were reportedly given in restricted stock units that were presumably connected to a specific performance target by Apple as reported by Bloomberg.
Employees are dubbing the incentives “special retention grants” because of the reason they’re being offered to both software and hardware developers. As a result, Apple wants to make sure that its engineers don’t leave the company to join Facebook, Google, and the like.
Typically, incentives fall anywhere between $100,000 and $200,000.
Employees in the company’s software and hardware engineering divisions received the incentives recently, according to the sources, who requested not to be named since the move was not made public. Some of the company’s employees referred to the restricted stock units as “special retention awards,” which ranged in value from $100,000 to $200,000.
Last year, Apple gave some of its engineers incentives of up to $180,000 in an effort to thwart Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram.