What's the biggest pay increase you've had between two jobs?

[Twigaletta]

I'm currently about to begin negotiations for a job I've been offered and the pay scale on the job advert ranges from £10k less than my current salary to £20k more.

I've moved between companies in the past and was being underpaid in one role (the new company said so) and got a £6k pay rise. I'm just curious to know what the biggest you've got is? I know all companies/circumstances are different but I'm interested in your experiences.

40% increase. Finally paid what I was worth. Sadly only lasted a year before life turned to shit and I haven’t worked since

About 15 years ago, I got a £13K increase. It felt amazing!

@HerRoyalNotness I'm sorry life took a turn for the worse for you

Yes it would be paying me what I'm worth but when you've been paid so badly for so long you get used to it and think that's all you're worth.

I’m about to change jobs and I will be doing 5 more hours a week for just over double the salary I am on now

I work for 2 agencies on a day-to-day basis. One pays 110 per day whereas the other pays 145. You can guess which one I call to update my availability and ask for work from first!

[quote Twigaletta]@HerRoyalNotness I'm sorry life took a turn for the worse for you

Yes it would be paying me what I'm worth but when you've been paid so badly for so long you get used to it and think that's all you're worth.[/quote]
Thankyou

I hate how, and it’s mostly women, we get taken advantage of in the work place. I remember asking my previous manager for a raise as I was doing xyz and training higher grade colleagues to do a particular piece of work, he laughed in my face and said new graduate hires earned what I did, me with my 15yrs and international experience.

£24k to £37k when I was 25. I felt like a millionaire!

I got a 10k pay rise for a new job a few years ago, from about 40k to 50k.
It was great
I took a risk asking for it, but it paid off.
Unfortunately I think as women we worry more about taking risks like that. I bet men do it all the time!
I only asked for more as a friend in the industry advised me that’s what I was worth.

I thank my lucky stars that currently I work for a place where my pay is reviewed every year. I’ve worked there for two years and have had a pay rise of about 2.5k each year.
I feel I’ve really had to push to get my pay reviewed almost everywhere else I’ve worked. Knowing I’m paid what I’m worth, and that it will keep being reviewed it definitely keeps me in my current job.

The more senior you are the easier it is to make bigger jumps, say 10-20k & potentially a bigger bonus.

However I often see posters on here who say they or their DH has gone from 30k to 80k in 2 yrs. I always wonder how.

I was terribly underpaid in a role at £26k. It was a good opportunity for me experience wise but I was completely taken advantage of. I ended up moving to another job just for the salary which was £36k. It was the wrong role for me but stuck it out for a year then moved again to £42k.

Do your research and see what you’re worth. I always found looking at jobs on the Reed website handy for that. If someone questions why you’re asking for x amount have your reasons ready. I was honest and said felt I was unpaid so the jump was justified and the recruiter agreed with me.

12k ish

£12k a few years ago, it made a massive financial difference, but was much more stressful.

Recently £10k though included a move from PT to full time. Was actually the first time I’ve ever asked for the salary I wanted rather than accept what they offered.

£15 k but stayed in original co. For £20k. I think those days are over.

@ghostee by being massively underpaid and changing jobs is one way.

I'm looking for a new job atm and the salaries are crazy high to me, like £50k give or take £10k. The job I'm being made redundant from pays £25k and my day rate for freelancing atm is £300 - about £100 under the going rate to account for being slower by being part time. Unfortunately my job isn't one often done part time so I think I'll struggle a bit.

Previous increases were apprenticeship to job = £12k -> £21k and then I just got a pay raise at a review which may have been a sex pay gap thing £21k -> £25k

Hospital doctor here went from £45k to £75K when I became a consultant. Take home "only" increased by half that due to tax and pension contriutions, lost tbe child benefit too. Not moaning though.

24k to 39k a.lot of haggling to finally get paid what I should have been being paid all along

Doubled it going from one organisation to another.

Last year I doubled my salary by promotion to the next pay grade. To get this I took a £10k paycut to enter the industry knowing that once in there would be opportunity to move up quickly. It was a gamble that paid off

I just recently went from £23.5k to £35k. I was woefully underpaid for what I was doing. It feels amazing

£25k to £44k about 3 years ago. I was hugely underpaid in my last role.

To add, that was moving from one organisation to another

About 8k.

I work in a notoriously underpaid industry anyway but the first employer was exploitative even by those standards - with all the extra hours that were expected it worked out less than NMW.

The new employer was a massive step up in both wages and working conditions.

I got £15k in February with promotion internally, but I’ve had £25k over the last 2 years.

@Whycantibetangy this is good to hear.

I'm about to take a £15k pay cut to get into the right role in the right company, on the potential of what it will become & everyone thinks I'm mad.

Admittedly, I'm very lucky to have pre-agreed objectives to see the salary increase over 2 years & savings/redundancy package that will hopefully see me through, but will need to be careful nonetheless.

I'm terrified and excited all at the same time.

9K with a promotion in house.
In my current job this is my 4th year in my role and my pay has increased 14K since I started.