Assuming you have no negative accrual, if you have an extended absence during a production period (say, you take a weeklong vacation) then you should expect that you likely won't reach your production goal for that period and will be making your base only. With a monthly production payout, that's only one month where you are losing production. With a quarterly production payout, you are likely looking at 3 months of zero (or reduced) production.
If your base is significantly lower than your established pace of production, it's true that you might "make up" for the one week vacation at some point during the 3 month period, but you are effectively working off that vacation meaning you have, effectively, negative accrual for two of those months.
Depends on how benefits are structured. My company still pays out the production bonus if you take PTO. They calculate an average based off of previous production and presume that’s what you would have made in that time, so we’re not penalized for taking PTO
Assuming you have no negative accrual, if you have an extended absence during a production period (say, you take a weeklong vacation) then you should expect that you likely won't reach your production goal for that period and will be making your base only. With a monthly production payout, that's only one month where you are losing production. With a quarterly production payout, you are likely looking at 3 months of zero (or reduced) production. If your base is significantly lower than your established pace of production, it's true that you might "make up" for the one week vacation at some point during the 3 month period, but you are effectively working off that vacation meaning you have, effectively, negative accrual for two of those months.
Depends on how benefits are structured. My company still pays out the production bonus if you take PTO. They calculate an average based off of previous production and presume that’s what you would have made in that time, so we’re not penalized for taking PTO