Work pay review disappointment

Look elsewhere. If you get offered something else be firm about the salary you're looking for. Your current employer may find the money to keep you, not sure I would stay in your shoes but whatever works for you.
The comments about what others are getting in terms of pay increases are not relevant. You should be paid the going rate for the work you do.

OP, what a bummer. There is a risk June is future-faking.

If you are planning to leave, I would go back to your manager saying you would like a better title whilst you wait. Since they just revised everybody's title's hopefully it is not a big ask and there is some flex there.

That way, when you go for interviews, they can see a progression in terms of titles and you can spin it as you took on more responsibilities and are got a new title promotion and in line for a fair pay increase which did not materialise so you are looking for other opportunities to grow.

If the other job is offering more and can easily meet your salary expectations, they would not be too bothered. Of course you would throw in the usual about wanting to progress and increase your experience and exposure and what else the other role and company offers which is attractive blah blah

@ivegotthisyeah Yup, exactly this OP. 👆You shouldn't have to "lie" about having another job in the wings because you should be looking around for one so when you say you have a job offer, it's genuine.
Also, it's all well and good your manager telling you they're delaying your promotion until June to get you an "out of pay review" pay rise, but what if Head Office don't agree to this? You may get the promotion with no increase in pay.
Only you can decide if the flexibility and benefits are worth the lower pay at your current employer, but you may find another job that has equal flexibility and benefits on a much higher salary. But you won't know if you don't look.
Finally, never forget, you are in your strongest position to negotiate a decent salary when you're about to start a new job - sadly, loyalty is often overlooked, particularly when you've been there 20 years.

I feel your pain. After a year of working myself into the ground for the company as it was struggling to find staff - I was offered £500.

Oddly enough I no longer work there.

Of course you look for another job

And when you give your notice, you say that you've been offered a job for £X - the amount your current job should have offered you, so bye bye.

At worst they match it, at best you start your new job.

Keep it professional, but that's what everyone does.

That’s a fairly standard increase in the current climate.

If there was a way to find out that, you may have a better way to approach it.

Or, look for similar roles in other organisations.

Take these figures to your line manager and say "I know the new hires are earning more than me for the same role" or "I have researched the market and it looks like the market rate for my role is £X." then "can you please ask HR to reconsider my salary as a result and I feel I am being underpaid for the role I currently have."

It is a bit rubbish for a promotion. I’d expect 3% min to be your annual rise (and more for private sector, i’m public and even we got 5% this years annual rise) but you’d expect a good few thousand for the next level up. In my public dept i’d say it’s 5k or so for next level up around that salary. My last promotion I had a 15k increase.

Start to look for something else.

If your FT is 29, they were never going to bump you to 35. That's a 20 increase. Thats rare ime.

You should have been questioning the £ when you accepted the promotion.

I think this is where the whole grading system can be disadvantageous to you as an employee.

If you take the "outstanding" categorisation away, how are they saying you did?

Did you just do the job that they were paying you for? Have you gone above and beyond your role, or simply performed your role very well?

As an employer, I pay people to do the job they were employed for. Unless they've done something truly exceptional, why should I pay them more than an inflationary increase? The only way people get a bigger boost on their earnings is to change and develop their role with training and experience and promotion.

The use of the word "outstanding" does feel like you should be expecting more from an end of year pay review.

The other thing that is being factored in to a lot of businesses this year is the increase in NI.

Let's say that you're on £23,000 currently. This year that means they're paying you the £23,000 and employer's NI is £1,918.

They give you a £900 pay increase, so your salary is now £23,900, but from April that employer's NI is £2,835.

A £900 salary increase and the NI increase takes your cost to them from £24,918 to £26,735 which is a 7.29% increase in their total cost.

To give you a 10% salary increase would take your total cost of employment to £25,300 in salary and £3,045 in NI = £28,345 or a 13.75% increase.

What were you expecting? In my role an outstanding review and a promotion are two separate things so I don't get what you mean. What's the salary band for the new role??

This with bells on it.

I Work for the council. We are getting 1 percent ! They have scrapped performance related pay for a new system which means apart from a 1 percent rise each year - we don’t get a pay rise for 3 years ! Then we will get 1.5k.
Im on 28k! So will get 280 pounds !!!! My council tax has gone up double that .

Leave!

The only way Iv seen women up their role and salary is move jobs. Planning over each time to better roles and not being afraid to move sideways if role downs suit

Oh and I've also had a high performance rating for the last three years.

I'm in a large corporate firm where we've had a big fat zero increase for the last two years. I don't think 4% is bad in the current climate to be fair!

I applied for the CEO job at work. Didn't get it, but got a 10k payrise out of it as they wanted to keep me doing my current job which they recognised I do very well, so that's one way to do it. 🙂

Edit: I've quoted the wrong post, sorry.

When you say 'I wanted 10% or above for a outstanding and promotion' you mean you wanted your current salary to increase by 10% to reflect the fact your performance was so good that it got you promoted? The financial benefit of being promoted comes at the point you receive your new, increased salary, not now.