Bonus and incentive allocations

Detects bonus and incentive allocations (STI/LTI awards, bonus pool allocations, performance bonuses) for an identified employee or participant, with award amounts, percentage of base, scorecard results or payment dates.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: the primary phrases also appear in policies, guidance, blank forms and news, so enforce tiers require a populated person field and 85 adds a record-specific populated detail plus independent corroboration. Person values are customer-defined (employee IDs, position numbers), so the field regexes use labelled loose values with a placeholder guard. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy.
Detection quality: Not detected
Jurisdictions: global
Regulations: Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), Fair Work Regulations 2009 (Cth), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), NDB Scheme (Cth), GDPR
Frameworks: ISO 27001, ISO 27701
Data categories: pii, employment
Scope: wide
Risk rating: 8
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:bonus\s+(?:allocation|pool|payout|award|entitlement|letter)|incentive\s+(?:payment|plan|award|allocation)|performance\s+bonus|(?:short|long)[\s-]+term\s+incentive|variable\s+pay|at[\s-]+risk\s+(?:pay|remuneration))\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

remuneration committee, fixed remuneration, pro rata, eligible, gateway, clawback, payroll, performance year, calibration, KPI

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Short-term incentive award letter Participant: Avery Teston Employee ID: 4471820 Target: 15% of base Award value: $18,240 Payment date: 15/09/2026 Approved by the remuneration committee; clawback provisions apply. — 85: STI award letter with participant, target, value and payment date
Performance bonus schedule Employee: Morgan Teston Scorecard result: 112% Amount: USD 9,400 Pro rata for 10 months of the performance year. — 85: Bonus schedule row with scorecard and amount
Bonus allocation - Sales team Employee name: Jordan Staffson Included in the Q3 allocation list pending sign-off. — 75: Allocation naming the employee, no amount

Should not match

The short-term incentive plan rewards eligible employees. This policy explains how bonus pool funding and gateways work. — Policy text - must stay below 75
Bonus allocation form Employee name: __________ Amount: $__________ Payment date: ___/___/____ — Blank form - must stay below 75
The bank cut its bonus pool by 20% this year, according to a media release. — News / media release - must stay below 75
unrelated generic text without domain phrases — No relevant topic phrases present
placeholder value 12345 — Random text should not match topic-specific regex
employee interview — Generic word pair from old broad template should not match

Known false positives

Policies, directives, fact sheets, guidance and training material that name the record type. Mitigation: Enforce tiers require a populated person field; guidance text has labels without values and guidance/training/media-release framing is excluded.
Blank forms, templates and HR system configuration. Mitigation: Blank lines, square- and angle-bracket placeholders, XXX and n/a/tbc values are rejected by the placeholder guard; template/fixture words are excluded.
Aggregate statistics and news reporting. Mitigation: No populated person field, so these stay at 65 discovery.
Records that identify the person only in free text (no field label) fall to 65. Mitigation: Accepted precision trade-off; extend the person-field regex with the customer employee-id format to recover recall.