So, it pays to be in the oil and gas business.  It also pays to build a business using the correct principles.

Hilcorp Energy, a Houston energy exploration firm, is giving its employees a $100,000 Christmas bonus.  That’s $100,000 each.  The bonus was based on the company reaching a five-year goal, and was prorated based off the amount of that five years each employee was with the company.  So if you were with the company the entire five years, you got the $100,000, if you were with the company for 2.5 years, you got $50,000.  Not too shabby.

It’s really interesting to see that they are giving that bonus in the current oil and gas climate.  It can’t be easy to write checks for a grand total of over $138 million right now.  It’s nice to see that the company owners have the integrity to do the right thing.