After a year of spilling red ink by the barrel, Stellantis will give some salaried employees performance bonuses despite telling its UAW-represented employees last month that there would be no 2025 profit-sharing checks for them because the automaker failed to turn a profit.
The Detroit Free Press has found that some non-bargaining unit employees at Stellantis — a group that includes on-site managers, corporate staffers and salaried trades workers — will be receiving performance bonuses at the end of March.
Stellantis confirmed in an emailed statement that some of those employees will be seeing bonus checks for 2025 despite a $26 billion loss for the year.
A salaried, nonunionized employee at Stellantis can qualify for a performance bonus in three categories: company-wide, divisional and individual. No company-wide bonuses are going out for the automaker’s poor performance in 2025, but the company confirmed that some divisions and individuals will receive bonuses for their performance last year.
“The compensation package for some non-bargaining unit employees includes a Stellantis Annual Incentive Plan (SAIP) payment, which is driven by three performance pillars — company, division and individual — with specific financial and non-financial annual targets as well as results from the divisions to which they are aligned and personal goals,” Stellantis spokesperson Jodi Tinson said in a statement. “As Stellantis’ overall 2025 performance results did not meet the established targets, the company component of SAIP will not be paid. Payment of the divisional and individual payments remain directly conditional on the results achieved.”
Stellantis did not disclose how many employees would receive bonuses or the total amount of the extra compensation.
Top-level Stellantis leadership, according to public filings, did miss out on bonuses that were contingent upon company-wide performance.
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa, who took over the company in June, made $6.3 million for his work in 2025 — a combination of his $1.6 million base salary, a $2.2 million relocation stipend, nearly a million dollars in benefits and a $1.7 million grant from the company. In total, Filosa came in shy of the nearly $12 million he could have made had the company hit all of its targets.
Filosa, as well as Stellantis Chairman John Elkann, missed out on multimillion-dollar paydays for missing their performance goals, according to Stellantis’ filings. Filosa could have earned at most $6.4 million in bonuses atop his $1.6 million salary, and Elkann would have made $2.7 million if the company could have grown sales, increased quality, lowered warranty costs, and increased cash flow and income.
Warranty cost was the only metric in which the company exceeded goals, falling short of all others. Elkann and Filosa did not receive any bonus payouts.
UAW: It’s a ‘slap in the face’
Rich Boyer, United Auto Workers vice president who oversees the Stellantis department of the union, told the Detroit Free Press he was “disgusted” to hear that some managers would be getting bonuses.
“The UAW, as well as I personally, am disgusted that we were just informed that management employees will be receiving a bonus check while Stellantis UAW members did not receive a profit-sharing check,” Boyer said. “Our members help drive this company’s success each and every year and they deserve to share in its success.”
UAW President Shawn Fain, too, called the news the “epitome of corporate greed” in a statement to the Free Press.
Bonuses for the non-bargaining unit employees at Stellantis are part of the yearly compensation package and paid out if an employee or department can meet certain goals. On the union side, however, profit-sharing checks rely on one key metric: adjusted operating income.
Even though Stellantis made headlines with a $26 billion loss, the union negotiated to pay out profit-sharing checks according to adjusted operating income, a term used to describe a special formula that exempts unique costs the company faced in a given year. The company’s $26 billion write-down, lost as it pivoted away from electric vehicles, was deemed an extraordinary expense and is exempted from adjusted operating income, the bucket of cash UAW employees draw from.
Nonetheless, Stellantis’ adjusted operating income — with the massive write-downs exempted — was still a loss of $2.2 billion.
Boyer, who helped negotiate the latest contract with Stellantis in 2023 during the union’s so-called Stand-Up Strike, blamed previous Stellantis leadership for the dismal year in 2025.
“The conditions that led to no profit-sharing payout this year stem from poor decisions made in the boardroom by (former Stellantis CEO) Carlos Tavares that nearly destroyed this company and our UAW members’ future,” Boyer said. “Make no mistake that Tavares’ plan was to gut the UAW. Tavares felt that he gave up too much in national negotiations and was coming back for his pound of flesh.”
Boyer had lost oversight of Stellantis in 2024 after Fain removed the department from his oversight and assigned it to another UAW leader. Boyer contested the removal, called it retaliatory, and was later reinstated by the union following a stern condemnation from the union’s court-appointed monitor, who has overseen the UAW as it emerges from an ugly corruption scandal that was settled in 2021. Boyer was reinstated at the start of 2026.
With his duties back, he says he will keep putting pressure on Stellantis.
“I was not the Stellantis-UAW vice president for much of 2024 and all 2025,” Boyer said. “I am back now and when we stand in solidarity with your support, we can and will ensure that the company makes the right decisions.”
Despite the past, Boyer and Fain are on the same page regarding managerial bonuses at Stellantis.
“Stellantis handing out bonuses to executives and managers while telling workers there are no profits and paying them nothing in profit sharing is a massive slap in the face and the epitome of corporate greed,” Fain said in the statement. “It wasn’t the workers who made bad decisions that drove Stellantis profits in the ditch. It was horrible management from the CEO down. But, as always, the executives get rewarded while the workers get screwed.”
Liam Rappleye covers Stellantis and the UAW for the Detroit Free Press. Contact him: LRappleye@freepress.com.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Salaried Stellantis staff to get bonuses while UAW misses out
Reporting by Liam Rappleye, Detroit Free Press / Detroit Free Press
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