If you see a Stifel Financial employee smiling broadly, it may be because of the holidays -- or it may be because the company is giving $1,500 bonuses to each of its more than 2,000 administrative workers.

Stifel joins several other companies, including AT&T, Comcast, Wells Fargo and Sinclair Broadcast Group, in handing employees a piece of the windfall from a corporate tax cut. Chief Executive Ron Kruszewski said in a statement that he wanted to recognize employees' hard work and "the positive environment we anticipate the tax legislation recently passed by Congress will create for Stifel."

The $1,500 is on top of regular year-end bonuses, which were paid last week. The extra payout won't come until early 2018 -- when many employees' tax rates will also be lowered as part of the tax legislation.

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