Straw poll - Payrises

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I'll start by saying I am posting out of curiosity over anything else, we have already done the numbers and researched what the national average is and what other business around us and similar to us are doing so this is not in anyway to help our decision.

I run an SME just done discussions with our a managers regarding pay rises, they believe what we are offering is poor, we think it is realistic and the best we can offer during difficult times.

So we have offered a 4% pay rise, plus a trial of moving to 4 day week.

I will add that all the managers are aware the business has struggled massively over covid yet kept everyone employed and have had to borrow which we now have to pay back. In over words we can't afford a massive inflation beating pay rise this year.

So straw poll what has everyone else's pay rise been?

I will repeat before someone says anything we are perfectly capable of running the business without MNs help I'm curious to know what everyone else is doing.

Large company- 10% at Christmas plus approx 5% bonus.

I don't think 4% is that great but it's better than nothing!

4% - banking industry (not a bank).

4% - one of the biggest private sector employers in the uk. Not had a pay rise in 2 years before that but did get bonuses. We were busier during the pandemic than we've ever been so no reason why pay rises shouldnt have been given in the previous two years or at least not made up for now. CEO makes grotesque amounts. We are also bleeding staff because we pay specialists anywhere between 10k -50k less than market rate despite money getting poured into vanity projects that go nowhere at the cost to essential services that are revenue generating. They are even making people who worked from home BEFORE the pandemic for years attend the office every week, so more people are leaving. At this point its almost a running joke that they can afford the pay rises because they've lost so many people they'll have saved on salary.
My friends works for a small employer - sub 50 people, and they arent giving out any pay rise saying they cant afford it despite again, them being busier than ever during the pandemic and the CEO changing his 50k+ cars every 6 months.
We are all made mugs in the system.

Civil Service, no pay rise for my department. Things are tight for me now, I think I'm going to start looking elsewhere maybe at a higher grade if I can get it.

Nothing yet if we get one it will be tiny and will be in Feb prob and backdated

Except for them though their has pay gone from 65 to 82k plus usual expensing anything and everything

4% but that is after years and years of no pay rise. Also SME

DH is a teacher and due to get 2.9% again after many years of no rises.

I think what you are offering OP is very good tbh

I still don't understand the 4 day week.

Are you going to be asking people to work 40 hours over 4 days? (those are long days)

Or 32 hours over 4 days, but for the same pay plus 4% as they used to work 39 hours over 5 days?

15% pay rise in a professional services firm.

We do 5 days but 39 hours however Friday is a short day, lots of employees in our survey requested 4 days to save on childcare/ fuel.

Some of these pay rises are incredible. I think I might need to start looking at other roles…

Mine is still in negotiations. The other half got 15% and the management are supposedly trying to get more to stop people walking.

0%, private sector. I haven't had a pay rise since I started two years ago. I'm looking elsewhere...dh works in care and I think got 2%, which we were happy enough with in the circumstances, plus he'd only been there a few months.

10% + inflation and trialling a 4 day week

4 day week is reduced hours, not compacted hours

We got 7%.

But it's warehouse work - heavy, dirty, back-breaking, repetitive and joint-destroying, and nobody wants it. And it's four twelve hour rotating shifts, or three on three off across days and nights, meaning it's not suitable for everyone.

As a result they are chronically short-staffed in all areas and are frantically trying to keep people in by improving the facilities. A pay rise is what people want, not better loos.

I think they're hoping that some of those 3.6 million Hong Kongers are going to turn up and do those jobs, because the English and Eastern Europeans seem increasingly disinterested....

The 4 day week trial is the same wage for a reduced working week - assumed this was what the op meant.

Civil service here, nothing so far and no word on it, though its meant to be paid at the end of the month! Probably 2% or nothing.

2% public sector. I would happily take 0% for a four day week though. 4% and a four day week and I’d feel like I had won the lottery!

4% but less bonus than every other year, so in real terms, 0.

5% plus bonus. Love the idea of a four day work week, though!

Sorry I'm no good at converting to %'s, but I went from £10.53ph to £11.83. It's is this months pay backdated from April.....Wednesday (payday), can't come soon enough.

Small charity. 3% in April and looking like we will get a one off cost of living increase September time pending board approval

4% which is higher than the usual 1-2%. Usually get a bonus, but so far we don't know if we will and how much. Although this was meant to be in our July pay and so far we have had no further word about it. Cut off for payroll is this week.

We've discussed whether or not we'll look to do the 4 day week, but only in our small team. There are no rumours or discussions that we actually know of.

Private smallish company. Although the parent company is a massive world-wide corporation and very well known.

Forgot to say we have also implemented a profit share uncapped so the more we make the more everyone gets although we haven't been in profit for a few years but we are forecasting this will be 2/3k although won't get that until April which is a long way off for many I know.