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Prime Bonus

18:24 Feb 9, 2024
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) / French pay slip
French term or phrase: Prime Bonus
Hi,
I am currently translating a pay slip and have "prime bonus" right before "salaire brut"
I am a bit confused because thought prime = bonus?
This is for Australia
Thanks
Joanna
joanna menda
Canada
Local time: 09:52


Summary of answers provided
4Non-discretionary and discretionary bonuses
Francois Boye
3Allowances & Bonuses
Daryo
4 -2prize-money and bonuses or awards and bonuses
Etienne Thems


Discussion entries: 4





  

Answers


15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -2
prize-money and bonuses or awards and bonuses


Explanation:
Other way to Say it

Etienne Thems
France
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  AllegroTrans: "Prize money" doesn't appear on a salary slip and it is not "other way to say it"; working for an employer is not some sort of big prize game
3 mins
disagree  Daryo: You presume pirates get "fiche de paie"??? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prize money ...
1 day 26 mins
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1 day 1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Prime / Bonus
Allowances & Bonuses


Explanation:
"prime bonus" makes not much sense, and you can't find any sample of "fiche de paie" using this term.

More likely to be "prime / bonus".

A cette paye de base, l’employeur peut ajouter une donnée variable individuelle : des primes, des bonus, des avantages en natures etc.

https://www.fiche-de-paie.fr/fiches-de-paie-primes-comment-c...

Anywhere else, only various "primes" are mentioned and they look like more or less fixed "allowances" as defined by collective bargaining, not really "bonuses" for exceptional individual performance.

https://www.sidecare.com/contrats-type/modele-de-fiche-de-pa...
https://www.lhotellerie-restauration.fr/sos-experts/modeles-...
https://la-paie-facile.com/les-primes-fiche-de-paie/
https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F559
https://www.cadremploi.fr/editorial/conseils/droit-du-travai...

etc



Daryo
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:52
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SerbianSerbian, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 166

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AllegroTrans
2 hrs
  -> Thanks!
disagree  Francois Boye: Prime in French is a nondiscretionary bonus built into labor contracts or laws
3 hrs
  -> Yes, you could also use "nondiscretionary bonus", but in essence these "nondiscretionary payments" are more like "allowances".// "Walks like a duck, quacks as a duck" etc ...?
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1 day 1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Non-discretionary and discretionary bonuses


Explanation:
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/pay-salary/discretionar...

Francois Boye
United States
Local time: 09:52
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 102

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: "Non-discretionary and discretionary" is superfluous as well as guesswork
2 hrs
  -> This distinction is based on the meaning of prime in French. A 'prime' is non discretionary because it is part of labor contracts or laws. Bonuses, instead, are discretionary
neutral  Daryo: As this second answer of yours (after you deleted your first answer) is a rewording of my own answer I should agree to it, but it's unnecessarily longer.
1 day 3 hrs
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