How much (if any) bonus money does your company offer for passing Microsoft exams?

My previous company would give a $500 bonus for the fundamental exams then $500 each year for the renewal. For the regular certs it was $750 and the same for annual renewal. If more than one exam was needed for a cert you would only get the bonus for completing all required exams. If you left less than 9 months after receiving an individual bonus you would have to pay it back 100%. We had a $5,000 a year budget to spend on any training or tuition we wanted.

My new company are a lot more straight forward. You get $1,000 for the first cert after joining them, $2,000 for the second, $4,000, for third, $8,000 for forth and you guessed it $16,000 for fifth. You have 2 years to complete all five, but can do them in as short a time as you want. There is nothing for annual renewals yet.

Which one of these schemes would you prefer? How do these compare to your company?

update

Not surprised there's a lot of us who get $0.00 for achieving certs. Company I worked at 2009 to 2016 gave zero.

During that time I was approached by a 3rd party unrelated contractor to associate my MCP ID with them in exchange for $4,000 every 3 months for 1099 no-show/no work job. I did it for about 18 months.

If your company give you no bonus then hawk yourself out like this, you owe them nothing if they don't value your certs. There are companies who'll pay you just to associate your MCP ID with them! Use LinkedIn and Upwork