Specialized Nurse Practitioner Salary & Bonus Structure

What’s the bonus structure in specialized medicine?

My friend just got the following:

NP out of school with 4 years of Nursing experience 135k and payout of 40k within a year given that he stays there for 6 years, otherwise he’ll have to pay it all back. There’s not even a distribution schedule where they would pay out bonus for each employment year instead and let him keep it, which I’m proposing.

Salary 135k
Bonus 40k right away - stay within company 6 years or pay all back

TC: 175k

Is this a good deal?Any other options than the distribution schedule counter offer , should he go on a lesser distribution schedule ?

Is this common structure ? Shouldn’t he just get a 10-20% bonus of his salary annually anyway with no strings attached? ( I’m used to that in Tech)

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Update:

It’s in the Midwest.

This is for Nurse Practitioner not nurse. He has about 4 years of nursing experience though.