[Closed] Pay Rise

Quirrel - Member

The thing that I love about STW is the jump to conclusions that because I used the word 'management', someone must be well paid.

In my opinion the word "management" means someone would be better informed about these things!

Congratulations on your huge salary increases. It's not greed. I think if everyone here had the opportunity to get a pay increase like that then they would take it. That would make them "greedy" I suppose, me included. I'm envious of your position. I get an annual CPI linked increase which over the past few years has been between 1-3%. There are other staff in my firm who get an RPI linked pay increase which inevitably means they get more than those on the CPI increases for doing the same work. The CPI linked increases were introduced for all newer staff and I think that's a bit unfair.

I work for a charity.

Pay increments do not happen. And have not for 8 years.

Pay rises also do not happen, unless they need you to take on an urgent new area of responsibility.

There is no way of progressing to a new pay scale.

The pay scale you are on has moved, but you have not.

I like my job but seeking new employment at present.

The last time I worked for "big business" the only pay rises around (for those on above-average salaries) were based on performance. So OP, are you 25% more productive?

Middle Management FTSE 100, company doing very well with record profits. Pay rises are pretty much non existent, they really are so low I would rather they didn't bother.

I never expect to see a material change, no matter how well I perform. Promotions no longer exist, your current role just get bigger by whatever dimensions are relevant, scope, reports, budget etc. It is now all about a bonus culture, nothing is consolidated and nothing becomes pensionable.

Overall in good year I do OK by most people's standards and should not complain when you look at how hard those in the public sector are being hit.

But I am 100% certain that the only way to see a change in my base salary is to leave. The last 10 years has seen a complete paradigm shift, the company will never go back and I don't foresee an economic landscape emerging that would demand a change.

I work in social care.In the last 8years I have had one 2.5% pay cut followed by 3 years with no pay rise, a 1% rise then 3 more years with no pay rise. My employer is a not for profit housing association.

I was setting the pay increases for the team today. It was an extremely good year last year so we could give some good increases. Also their end of year bonuses went into the banks today. Plenty of smiles and certainly one of the positive sides of tons of hard work from them.

I just typed a long answer, then got ****ing logged out again when I pressed the send post button.

In short: I've seen between 1.5 & 2% in the last 5 years with a panic "pay everyone more or they'll all leave" rise of 7.5%.

Feel very lucky compared to some.

I got 40% once.
Had to move house and change job/change industry sector.
There were two pay adjustments to my new role between me accepting and my start date, which was good.

Also moved from a notoriously bad paying employer (but they look good on the CV) to one of the best paying in the (new) sector. Since then, all actual pay increments have been 2-3% ish.

Unfortunately, every subsequent major job move (usually involving international borders) has involved a pay cut. Arse.

Probably back where i would have been if I'd stayed put.

25% sounds like getting through a probation period and being able todo the job properly. 5% would be luxury for most people these days.

As a minimum I would hope for inflation.
If I was getting better at my job then a % based on how close I was to being the best at that role.
Anything more than that would involve changing roles to take on more responsibility or bringing a significant amount more to the table such as sales, delivered work, efficiency or more experience.

are you 25% more productive?

In my experience, there is no straight-line relationship of this sort.

For example, this year I have received a very nice pay-rise (well short of 25% mind!) and a very generous bonus, after years of "buy yourself a nice Christmas ham from M&S" level bonuses and falling real-terms pay. It was the first year in my decade-long professional career when there has been [i]literally no remotely objective method of establishing whether I am adding any value[/i]. Coincidence? I think not...

🙂

No pay rise for 3 years, increased pension contributions & they started charging us for the privilege of being able to park at work with no guarantee of a parking space. The amount a percentage of your wage. I feel like I'm paying them not the other way around.

Pay rise? I'm not even sure what that means? I'm coming up to 4.5 years with nothing, although word on the grapevine is official 10% paycut and new contracts will be issued next week to welcome us into 2016. In fairness I did get a substantial increase moving to Oz (although a lot of that increase was flattering exchange rates and a vast abundance of overtime / sitework).

I did get a substantial increase moving to Oz (although a lot of that increase was flattering exchange rates and a vast abundance of overtime / sitework).

private sector here. it used to be at managers discretion, generally 5% every 18/24 months. Now its all performance related, where 'significantly overachieves' gets you a 1.8% increase

Quirrel - Member

The thing that I love about STW is the jump to conclusions that because I used the word 'management', someone must be well paid.

Says the man ordering a custom frame!

I'm probably more concerned about my pension and savings in 15 years as I won't have too many opportunities for advancement in retirement (apart from age) and the world economy is still pretty wobbly for pension fund investments
Include 1%-ish salary rises now and the next few decades are looking pretty depressing, and I'm lucky to have a pension and savings to be concerned about

The trend is seen working in commercial insurance is pay rise just about = inflation. Last job I was in it was inflation plus thrupence.

At the height of the crisis (2008, 09 & 10) it was the sum total of F x A.

In the current climate (and barring promotions etc) I'd expect at least inflation. Anything else would be a bonus.

Annual payrise?

Ha

Not had a Payrise in 3 yrs now.
[takes out willy]
However bonus at Christmas this year was a third of my salary. That was very unexpected but I've worked my stones off over the last year and personally sold one property. Id rather have it that way as opposed to in my salary as I never expect it/know what it is and therefore it's almost a way of saving.
[puts away willy]

I've had one pay rise in the last 11 years. That said as I have moved jobs due to redundancy a couple of times I am on less money now than I was 11 tears ago.

I'm an NHS senior manager - with pay scales only 1% higher than in 2009.

I have no access to any form of pay rise (inflationary, or pay scale increments) this year... and probably indefinitely.

The "1%" pay rise for public sector workers to 2020 is likely to be a total wage bill settlement; meaning that it also has to fund Living Wage etc.

Very depressing.

However bonus at Christmas this year was a third of my salary.

Congratulations!

pay ... rise pay ... rise? Nope never seen those two words together before.
Public sector.

following yesterdays calculations, i rode to work today - although with petrol the price it is, its not the saving it could be.

used the work shower too.

gonna take a poo in work time and, and, and use more loo roll than absolutely necessary.

hashtagthatwilllearnthem

I've been [s]quite[/s] very fortunate, managing to get 20% in the last year, but I've done that by taking on a lot more responsibility, with a corresponding huge step increase in workload, and being contactable every day - including all weekends, holidays etc. to problem solve for sites all over the country.
This isn't something that concerns me at all, as I love my job and live and breath it, but it's more an illustration of what's required to get more. My raise should I have stayed doing what I was doing would have been nothing.
Not meant in any way as a willy wave, I know how hard it is for 99% of families out there.

We get approx. 2% P/A here, however it is linked to our performance review. You have to get 'successful' to get the 'merit rise'

However due to various promotions my basic is now twice what it was when I started here 9 years ago.

We also get a bonus based on our dept performance - for a few years I got nothing (as we didn't make any money) but the last 3 years I've got an extra £5k before tax in Decembers pay packet.

Have a feeling that might be the last of it for a while though.