Samsung Electronics has finalized performance bonuses by business unit. The device solutions (DS) institutional sector, which handles the semiconductor business, will receive 47% of annual salary as this year's performance bonus. The mobile experience (MX) division, which handles the smartphone business, was set at a 50% payout rate.
On the 16th, Samsung Electronics finalized and notified employees in the afternoon of the payout rates for the 2025 excess profit incentive (OPI) by business unit. The payout date is the 30th. Paid once a year, the OPI is paid once a year at up to 50% of an individual's annual salary within 20% of excess profit if the affiliated business unit's results exceed the targets set at the start of the year.
For the DS institutional sector, the OPI payout rate was set at 47% of annual salary across business units including memory, foundry, and system LSI. The DS institutional sector's OPI for 2024 was 14%. This year, with general-purpose DRAM and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) businesses showing growth, the payout rate appears to have increased significantly.
The foundry division also signed the largest-ever supply contract last year with Tesla worth 22.8 trillion won, and the system LSI division delivered results by agreeing to supply image sensors for the next-generation iPhone to Apple.
Within the device experience (DX) institutional sector, a 50% OPI payout rate was decided based on last year's Galaxy S25 and Fold 7 series sales performance. The visual display (VD), digital appliances (DA), network, and medical device divisions, which handle the TV business, will each receive a 12% OPI.
In addition, corporate management support and Harman, a subsidiary in the automotive electronics and audio business, were set at a 39% OPI.