Samsung Chip Workers to Get Average $340,000 Bonus in AI Boom

Samsung Electronics Co. will distribute about 40 trillion won ($26.6 billion) to chip employees as a bonus for this year after the company struck a last-minute deal with labor unions to avert a strike.

Samsung employs 78,000 people in its semiconductors division. While bonus levels will vary, workers stand to get 513 million won on average, equivalent to $340,000, according to Bloomberg calculations based on proposed terms and estimates for 2026 operating profit. Samsung employees earned 158 million won on average in 2025, according to a company filing in March.

Other estimates, including by Yonhap News, calculated ...