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title: "Nice work if you can get it: Singapore Airlines staff get eight months’ salary bonus"
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# Nice work if you can get it: Singapore Airlines staff get eight months’ salary bonus

> Singapore Airlines will pay staff a bonus of around eight months’ salary after posting a record annual profit, the Business Times newspaper reported.

By Bloomberg · Published 18 May 2023, 08:00 SAST

## Key points
- Daily Maverick reports that Singapore Airlines has rewarded its staff with a generous bonus package for their hard work and sacrifices during the pandemic, while also flying 1.75 million passengers in April and posting the highest profit in 76-year history.
- Singapore Airlines reports highest profit in 76-year history
- Eligible staff to receive 6.65 months’ pay bonus and 1.5 months’ salary ex-gratia bonus
- Carried 26.5 million passengers in the year, up six times from pre-Covid levels
- April passenger numbers up 53% from same month last year

## Content

Eligible staff will be paid a profit-sharing bonus equivalent to 6.65 months’ pay, and a maximum of 1.5 months’ salary of ex-gratia bonus in recognition of their hard work and sacrifices during the pandemic, the newspaper reported, citing a spokesperson for the airline. Senior management won’t receive the bonus, the newspaper said.

The city-state’s flag carrier on Tuesday reported net income of S$2.16 billion ($1.62-billion) for the year ended March 31, and said forward sales are healthy across all cabin classes, led by bookings to China, Japan and South Korea.

Read more: [Singapore Airlines reports highest profit in 76-year history](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-16/singapore-airlines-says-posts-highest-profit-in-76-year-history)

Singapore Airlines and its budget offshoot Scoot carried 26.5 million passengers in the year, six times higher than the 12 months through March 2022, with passenger capacity rising to 79% of pre-Covid levels in March.

On Monday, Singapore Air said it flew 1.75 million passengers in April, up 53% from the same month last year. Hong Kong rival Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. has a way to go before it gets to those heights, with last year’s revenue still only about half of pre-pandemic levels. **BM/DM**