My company is looking to adjust TC formula in a weird way

My company is looking to adjust everyone's total comp by doing the following:

Decrease your bonus by X amount and increase your base by that same amount. 

  • Pre-Adjustment
  • Base: $125K
  • Bonus: $40K
  • TC: $165K
  • Post-Adjustment
  • Base: $155K
  • Bonus: $10K
  • TC: $165K


Thoughts on this? My issue with this is that our TC will remain the same without any bump and there's less incentive to outperform if your bonus will be a very small portion of your compensation (~10% of your base).

In addition, other firms have been increasing base salaries for their FO employees so the gap between our comp and the street will continue to widen as time passes.

Should I look elsewhere? The company indicated that they are also looking to do a market rate adjustment but who knows how long that's going to take?

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