Macau casino operator Sands China Ltd is to pay a discretionary bonus for 2025 to eligible full-time staff, and from March 1 will increase salaries by between 2.0 percent and 4.0 percent for eligible workers.
The company gave the news in a Monday statement, adding the salary boost would be “benefitting 99 percent of Sands China’s close to 28,000 team members”.
Hong Kong-listed Sands China said the discretionary bonus equivalent to one month’s salary will be paid on February 6, to non-management staff who have been with the company for one year or more.
For managers, the discretionary bonus will be paid “based on individual performance, the company’s management incentive plan, and financial results,” stated the casino firm. Staff who have worked for Sands China for under a year would receive “prorated bonuses if they joined the company before October 1, 2025, and are still employed on the bonus payout date”.
For the salary increase, eligible full-time staff earning monthly pre-tax salaries up to MOP16,000 (US$1,993) will receive a pay rise of MOP500, resulting in a salary increase of between 3.1 and 4.0 percent.
Eligible full-time team staff earning pre-tax monthly salaries above MOP16,000 will receive a 2.0 percent pay rise.
All six Macau operators have now announced some form of 2025 bonus. Sands China is the first to make a public statement about a pay rise for the current calendar year.
Grant Chum, chief executive and executive director of Sands China, listed the firm’s 2025 milestones, which he said had been “underpinned by the team’s robust collaboration and execution” and which had included “driving the group’s total visitation beyond 1.1 billion”.
He added: “These accomplishments reflect the professionalism and dedication of our team members. In recognition of their efforts over the past year, we are pleased to announce a discretionary bonus and a salary increase.”
Sands China had, said Mr Chum, delivered in 2025 around 600 “high-quality” events covering meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions, entertainment, sports, and arts and culture. The CEO said this had been “further highlighting the city’s vitality as a ‘World Centre of Tourism and Leisure,’” a reference to a local-government policy aspiration.
