Following Samsung Electronics, the electronic affiliates are setting performance bonuses.
Samsung Display notified employees on the 28th that it has set the over-profit incentive (OPI) payout rate at 36% of annual salary across all divisions. The payout date is the 30th. A year earlier, Samsung Display's OPI was set at 40% of annual salary. Samsung Display's annual operating profit last year is estimated at around 4 trillion won.
Samsung SDI set the OPI payout rate for all divisions at 0%. It is expected to post a large operating loss due to the impact of the electric vehicle "chasm" (a temporary demand lull). Samsung Electro-Mechanics decided to pay performance bonuses equal to 6% of annual salary to both the Component Solution and Optical Communication Solution divisions. However, the Package Solution division was set at 5%.
OPI is a system under which, when a division's results exceed the goals set at the beginning of the year, a one-time annual payout of up to 50% of an individual's annual salary is made within a cap of 20% of the excess profit. Samsung pays performance bonuses through OPI and the target achievement incentive (TAI).
Samsung Electronics finalized the OPI payout rates and notified employees on the 16th. In the Device Solutions (DS) division, most units, including Memory, System LSI and Foundry, were set at 47% of annual salary. In the Device eXperience (DX) division, the Mobile eXperience (MX) division, which recorded strong sales of the Galaxy S25 and Z7 series last year, has the maximum OPI payout rate of 50%. The OPI payout rate for divisions including Visual Display (VD), which handles the TV business, as well as Digital Appliances (DA), Networks and Healthcare Device, was set at 12%.