Games Workshop Gives Staff £5,000 Bonus

While the pandemic has hit many industries hard, the tabletop gaming industry has -- shipping issues aside -- not suffered the way many others have. Nottingham-based Games Workshop is one such company, which says that sales were up 30% year (with Warhammer 40K and the new Cursed City games particularly strong), with pre-tax profits being up 70%.

GW has 2,600 employees, including shop workers, model makers, designers, and support staff, and each of those employees is getting a bonus of £5,000. This comes from a £2.6M profit share (with an extra £10.6M added on top). Senior managers are getting a share of an additional £1.1M pot.

While GW has had to close several of its 523 stores, there are plans to open more in the US, Japan, and China.

Additionally, Games Workshop has given back the financial support it received from the government.

The Guardian has more on the topic.

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[Sorcerers Apprentice]

Kudos to GW for this. £5K is a lot of money for retail workers, so the guys and gals on the floor at the GW stores that have kept going thought the pandemic will get a big boost from this. Save it towards a downpayment on a home or blow it all on a dream vacation, either way means improved quality of life!

 

[aco175]

Nice to see companies giving back Covid money if they do not need it. There has been several examples of companies taking it when they do not need it, at least here in America.

 

[Mercador]

That's an hobby I would love to fall into. At the same time, what to do with all those painted miniatures...

 

[TheSword]

It's £5k into their share save scheme; and the conditions/ leave etc has worsened

Is that a joke or substantiated?

 

[John R Davis]

Is that a joke or substantiated?

Truth

 

[MGibster]

Ah, well that is not nearly as cool as what I thought was a $7,000 bonus.

 

[TheSword]

Truth

Oh right. What’s the source? There was no mention of that in the many news articles.

 

[Mercador]

Is that a joke or substantiated?

On Internet, you never really know.

 

[MGibster]

Midwinter Minis' Guy has some pretty negative things to say about the employee pay for GW.

 

[TheSword]

Midwinter Minis' Guy has some pretty negative things to say about the employee pay for GW.

I’d be a lot more impressed if he didn’t complain about not being paid by GW for being on online content creator with his own you tube channel. With 12m views I’m sure he gets paid plenty by advertising.

The guy seem very nice but the principle of is argument. People should be paid more… because they should. Supply and demand means there will never be a shortage people willing to come up with rules and write boxed text. There never has been. People don’t have to work there.