With oil under $40 per barrel and many economic indicators less than extraordinary, not many companies are offering bonuses this Christmas. One Houston-based company is not only giving out bonuses to all of its employees, but the bonuses are six-figure bonuses.

Hilcorp Energy is one of the nation’s largest privately held energy exploration firms. Fox 26 in Houston reports that the company has had such a great year, that each of their 1,381 employees is receiving a $100,000 bonus for Christmas. That’s a grand total of $138,100,000.

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