<prompt> Human: I have been working for a company for about 8 months, and as workload increased bossmanagement decided to give me a bonus. Stated that since Im not at a year, I could not get raise but would get a 1k bonus. Great, I can use money to pay off a credit card.So next check comes, I see a small bump in pay. I calculate it out, and gross pay increased by 1k, a 2 raise. Before I go talk to HR or anyone to get it sorted out, I wanted to check in to see if raise might actually be better. I feel bonus is better as I can pay off debt now. Thank you!  <response>: I think it might be even more important to find out if this actually was a raise or if it was a bonus spread across 1 year...it sounds like they could have done that? Check your paystub and make sure the 2 was added to your total pay and not some other category.If it turns out this was an increase in your actual salary then typically, a raise is superior to a bonus because of what everyone else has already stated.Congrats! 