It's been floating around at work that the bosses want everyone to get certified up the wazoo. MCP and hardware certs for us bench monkeys, Network and large format laser printers for the onsite monkeys (although everyone is encouraged to get all the certs they can).

We are currently trying to negotiate some compensation for getting these certs.

Do you get a bonus or a raise for getting certified? If so, what did you get? Right now they are talking around $500 a year for MCP and maybe $50 a year for hardware certs (printers, notebooks, desktops) and possibly a small immediate one time bonus for each cert. Sux that they will not go retro active on the certs thoughas I have a few hardware certs already under my belt.

So please, give me some ammo to bring to the next meeting we have about compensation and benifits.