We first form an employee bonus expectation model by the previous bonus data and examine market reactions to unexpected employee bonuses by event study. We then utilize OLS Model and Fixed Effect Model to explore the relationship between unexpected employee bonuses and abnormal returns. The results show that firms which grant more employee bonuses than expected have lower abnormal returns. Also, employee stock bonuses contribute more to negative returns than employee cash bonuses. Furthermore, the negative effects of employee bonuses have seemed to dominate over the incentive effect, particularly in latest years.