{"id":192194,"date":"2015-02-20T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=192194"},"modified":"2015-02-20T04:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T18:00:43","slug":"delta-employees-earn-1b-profit-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/delta-employees-earn-1b-profit-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta employees earn more than $1B in profit sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ATLANTA<\/strong>\u2014Delta Air Lines employees received yesterday profit sharing as part of the company\u2019s $1.1 billion total payout for 2014\u2014the largest payment in the company\u2019s history\u2014in recognition for their industry-leading performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Delta, we believe that people, values and culture drive our success,\u201d said Richard Anderson, Delta\u2019s chief executive officer. \u201cWe call it the \u2018Delta Difference.\u2019 It is essential for our employees to have an ownership stake in our business and share in the record-breaking achievements they helped create. Thank you to Delta\u2019s 80,000 people worldwide, who made 2014 an exceptional year by taking great care of our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Total individual payouts will equal more than 16 percent of employees\u2019 eligible 2014 earnings, which equates to an average of nearly two months\u2019 salary. In October 2014, Delta paid a 5 percent advance on profit sharing to employees.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 payout is a record for the airline industry, and among the highest for any U.S. corporation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to profit sharing, Delta\u2019s Shared Rewards program pays out monthly bonuses for meeting corporate operational goals throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Delta employees earned more than $84 million in Shared Rewards as the company achieved history-making operational and financial results. Delta has paid out $2.9 billion to employees in profit sharing and Shared Rewards during the past five years. <strong>(Delta Air Lines)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA\u2014Delta Air Lines employees received yesterday profit sharing as part of the company\u2019s $1.1 billion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2216,67,2217,2218],"class_list":["post-192194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-atlanta","tag-people","tag-richard-anderson","tag-shared-rewards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}