Employees of Detroit Public Schools will receive a bonus in their paycheck next week as part of the district's budget surplus from last year.

Roy Roberts, DPS emergency financial manager, announced Tuesday the one-time bonus will be equivalent to 2 percent of the employee's base salary/wages for the 2011-12 fiscal year. It will be paid Dec. 21.

In August, Roberts announced the district would pay bonuses to 8,000 employees -- union and nonunion -- out of a projected $11.9 million budget surplus for the district. It was expected to cost the district $1.7 million. Updated figures were not immediately available Tuesday.