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Experience to date has been that without promotion, pay-rises within a company have always trailed inflation. So either you get promoted, and at that point you
by buro9 14y ago
Experience to date has been that without promotion, pay-rises within a company have always trailed inflation.
So either you get promoted, and at that point you've negotiated a substantial raise (to offset the real decline in earnings and to protect your actual earnings in the years after the payrise)...
Or...
You go get a job elsewhere.
It's a sad fact that the majority of real pay rises that I've ever seen, and that others I've spoken to have seen, have all come as a result of changing employer.
This is a UK perspective btw.
- cfontes 14y agoIn Brazil it's the same thing.
- tcgv 14y agoI'm from Brazil too and this year the company I work for gave a pay raise of 8.0% for me and my fellow programmers, a little bit above the expected inflation for 2012 of 5.6%
- jackbauer 14y agoSouth African too
- jordo37 14y agoThis feels true for the US companies I have worked at as well.
- cmdkeen 14y agoDoesn't have to be the case. My current employer consistently offers 10% pay rises. But then that's in a non-public company that is financially secure. Less than inflation pay rises are something you should only accept as an alternative to them laying people off.
- Ntrails 14y agoThe phrasing bandied about where I currently work is: "You are doing the same job as last year, so your pay should be the same adjusted for inflation. If you want more money, you need to be taking on more responsibility, growing your role."
- fmavituna 14y agoOut of curiosity, what happens when you tell them you doing it better this year (assuming you're telling that to them)? If you not doing your job better than last year, is there any other good argument for getting a significant raise?
- beaumartinez 14y agoYou are doing the same job as last year, except with a whole nother year's worth of experience.
- heymishy 14y agovery off topic, but i've always wondered whether 'nother' was an acceptable word to use.
- lawl 14y agono native english speaker here, but i guess "a whole 'nother" would be correct. but let people be lazy when typing online. actually i guess you'd also need to switch the words to be gramatically correct: "another whole year"
- neltnerb 14y agonative english speaker here, and I grant that english is flexible enough that such things are largely a matter of opinion, but "nother" bugs me. I would write 'other with the apostrophe used to indicate the mixing of "a whole other" and "another" into 'other. I would pronounce it "other" if I was thinking, but possibly "nother" if I was being sloppy.