But his pay - including retention bonuses - will flow for two more years.

To use up that much under the retention bonus approach would require 150 sites of 20,000 square feet.

Instead, they get that amount as a "retention" bonus if they stay for six months.

"What are the people from Skype going to do once their retention bonuses have been earned?"

In addition, other executives were paid "retention bonuses" of two years' salary.

Multiyear retention bonus: medical officers of the armed forces 301e.

Employees would be eligible for a large retention bonus - in some cases, maybe $1 million - if they stayed at least a year.

That "retention bonus" would come on top of his annual pay, which totaled more than $9.2 million last year.

It will also pay retention bonuses of $11,900 to $19,800, based on lawyers' seniority.

If he is still running the company in 2011, he will receive a retention bonus of $10 million.