- Station Casinos surprised nearly 10,000 employees with a stock award—$1,000 in company Class A shares for every year of service—totaling more than $70 million to mark its 50th anniversary.
- Some longtime workers received life-changing amounts: Ida Johnson, who joined in 1977, got about $49,000 in stock; others from the 1970s received over $45,000.
- Leadership framed the move as “making employees owners,” part of a wider trend of companies (Apple, Bank of America, Samsung) giving broad stock bonuses to reward staff.
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