No-one is saying that they are earning over $100k a year and can't get by without the bonus. Frankly, whatever your income, if you need this bonus you're budgeting badly because no-one knew about it until a few days ago. If your budget was based on $1k appearing out of thin air you need to start making a more realistic budget.
Regardless of your income, being just a tiny bit over the cut-off would be annoying and regardless of your income, $1k will be useful, even if it's just so that you can buy one more pearl studded chihuahua collar.