A third feature of Nucor's culture is its strong emphasis on performance-based rewards around team and organizational performance. Nucor mill workers, all of whom are nonunion earn only about $10 an hour in base pay, but their total compensation is the highest in the industry (about $80,000 annually in good years) due to generous performance-based bonuses around team and organizational outcomes. Teams of 12 to 20 employees earn a generous bonus for each batch of steel produced. If employees produce a bad batch of steel before it leaves the mini-mill, they lose their bonus for that shipment. But if a bad batch makes its way to the customer the team loses three times its usual bonus. Employees also earn a profit-sharing bonus, which is about $15,000 annually in recent years.