performance-related payments, benefit S etc are ones that increase when your work improves or becomes more productive and decrease if the opposite happens:
• Workers at most gold mines will receive an average 6% increase, plus performance-related bonuses.
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performance-related UK US adjective (also performance-based) HR, FINANCE
► used to describe pay that is based on how well someone does their job: »
The unions are against performance-related pay for teachers.
»Their top executives are handsomely paid and also receive a performance-related bonus.
Financial and business terms. 2012.