Payraise.. how much do you expect? how much did you get?

just had my end of year review, I'm shocked... I got a higher rating than all my prevoius reviews.
I've not been that healthy this year and spent more time in hosiptal/clinics/gps than probably all the rest of the years in my life put together.
coupled with my mum's ill health, sadly she past away the other week.. I've had a lot of time off work.

anyway I'm expecting quite a bonus and uplift this year considering that I'm the most experince in my team at the role now that one of my collegues moved teams.
we see in April.
 
Expecting a huge one to be fair (8-10k) or will maybe look elsewhere as have had offers above what i want but just dont feel the vibe or places who are offering me jobs
 
cheesyboy said:
In addition to the above, a small promotion coupled with a 9% pay rise to end the year.

A pretty good year, overall.
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You got a 6K Bonus + 4% pay rise plus another 9% rise :eek:

Looks at my 4% rise and thinks Dam am really in the wrong kind of job :(:(:(
 
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chaparral said:
You got a 6K Bonus + 4% pay rise plus another 9% rise :eek:

Looks at my 4% rise and thinks Dam am really in the wrong kind of job :(:(:(
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Ha, well it was an unusually good year. Inflationary pay rise and promotion do happen from time to time, but I've never had a bonus like that before!

I anticipate only getting an inflationary rise next year. Don't expect any bonus or promotion.
 
Bounce said:
Yes agreed, it really doesn’t motivate you to earn more , due to tax at 40%.
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Or those on NMW reach the first tax bracket a lot quicker, you start paying more tax so you have to do more hours to pay the loss in income of tax, food prices going up, retail jobs are crappy low hours crap pay etc, doing the tasks of 2-3 people even supervisor role (last job wanted us to be multi skilled, reach targets, do paperwork in effect managers role and tasks for a few p more than NMW)
 
Bounce said:
Yes agreed, it really doesn’t motivate you to earn more , due to tax at 40%.
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Then you get other places like in my island where even if someone earns 300k they only pay 20% tax

Which i feel is one the huge reasons why the island is in such a mess with crazy house & rent prices
 
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Got our annual raise letter yesterday, right at the end of my last day. Just a stock 3% roughly in line with inflation. Meh, I need less stress not more money unless it's enough to significantly change my lifestyle. I was working until 8.30pm and have a pile of stuff on my desk to greet me in January.

What I am more happy about is that my 3 direct reports all got their 3% (rounded up to 1k) plus a "growth in role" payrise on top. They deserve it - they're the ones delivering the work and it's not unskilled. The 2 new hires were on dangerously close to minimum wage.
 
Only 2%, don't remember the last time I had such a low increase.

Have a promotion coming up in Q1 which should be a 15-20% bump. Maybe the manager is thinking ahead.
 
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£0. 0%. Shocked. I had low expectations i.e. Inflation only but to receive nothing is a slap in the face. No one had a pay rise, let alone a bonus, by the sounds of the letter I got.t
I'm a (technical) director in a firm of civil engineers. The board of directors really need to improve the financial management/leadership of projects... I've been telling them for years, and most engineers have been asking me why we don't charge more.
 
Found out today we're getting 2.5%. Better than nothing I guess, but barely covers the increase in our grocery spend over the last 12 months, never mind the rising costs in everything else.

Cited the increase in NI as the reason it's so low this year - of course nobody saw that coming.

On the other hand, if that increase gets spent wisely and put to good use by the govt., then I'm not going to complain too much (although that's a big "if"!)

Still a bit of a downer when our last few company updates have been the directors saying how profits are up and we're smashing all our company targets...
 
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