...to ask if yours goes up every year?

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Your salary, I mean. Obviously I know what the situation is in the public sector (and how it sucks); but what's happening in the private sector? I remember, many aeons ago, that I used to get an annual pay review, which would inevitably be followed by a small, but significant rise. Because, y'know, bread and beer and bananas were all going up in price, and that seemed like the reasonable thing to do.

I haven't had a rise in over seven years now, despite the cost of living soaring - and my job becoming considerably more demanding. I've been thinking, well, that's normal (aus-fucking-terity); and, as in the public sector, it sucks.

But am I missing something? Is every else's salary still going up, year on year, even without a change of job title? I don't need specific details, obviously, but if anyone is prepared to share what their job is, and whether or not they expect an annual, incremental rise, I would find it hugely helpful...

Thank you.

Support worker. Had a 3p pay rise since 2009. I used to earn more than the minimum wage and am now on the living wage.

In our company this year the total pay rise was 2.6%. Bonus is on top and that is up to 10% of salary. Private sector.

Regular pay reviews here, private sector, fwiw I think it's awful that public sector aren't getting pay rises in line with inflation

No pay rise for 8 years, just because it's a new year. No bonus for about 3 years either. My pay has increased in that time by moving to different companies. I work in the private sector in marketing.

So the data on pay rises is that pay has been falling in real terms from 2005-2015. For the public sector the decline was 3.1%. For comparable private sector jobs it was 6.1%.
This is from a report written by UCL academics for the Office of Manpower Economics, which sets public sector pay.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/wage-growth-in-pay-review-body-occupations

1%
I got an odd letter from manager suggesting I should celebrate... I'm grateful ... aware of constraints on public purse but not in celebratory mode.
My DH ( also public servant) has had 2 stretches of no raise for 10 years and then a leap up....
not sure whether predictable is better or not.... it probably is when you are young and have mortgage and babies to factor in.

I have always had raises annually of between 5 - 10%, obviously more if promoted and I expect a 10% bonus each year. Otherwise, I will take my skills and go elsewhere. Private sector consulting type work. I feel awful for public sector and minimum wage workers.

DH's bonus this year was 30% due to high performance. Usually approx 15%.

I'm private sector. Mine's been 1% increase for the past 5 years or so. Before that it was always 2 or 3%.

Private sector here. No salary increase ever over the last 20 years apart from after winning promotion. Salary cut by 5% in 2008 and then commission only, no sick pay, no holiday pay, no guarantee of work since 2012. Husband (also private sector professional environment) has been made redundant twice since 2007 and salary dropped by 5%.

NHS - in addition to the 1% we got this year I will also get an annual increment on the anniversary of being in current pay band, later this year. This is worth nearly 3% to me this year. There are 8 years worth of those increments at my current band. So whilst the basic pay is not great there is progression built in. Good pension too which matters to me as I am getting older. I am not well paid, but I am definitely not complaining either.

DH (Private sector) says he hasn't had a pay rise for two years, but his last pay rise was 40%.

I work in banking, on a trading floor - no- one above VP gets an salary increase. We are paid well for what we do, but thanks to the power of Blackberry I do effectively work from 5am to 10pm 5 days a week, and never have a full weekend off ... nor holiday.

Dh received a pay cut 18 months ago and another in January. But he works in the oil & gas industry so we're really just grateful he still gets paid at all!

Have you actually asked for one? If not, why not?
I ask for a pay rise every year at the same time and I get one!

Private sector here. No pay rise for 5 years. Xmas bonus most years.

Private sector has been a combo of nothing, 1% and 2% for years and years and that's in global firms and local firms. Only decent rises have come from promotion or changing employers.

I do cos I'm self employed and having to put in ever increasing hours to make ends meet. dh hasn't had one for a long time. He's private sector. It annoys the pants off me that he won't ask. Can't tell you how cross it makes me.

Have you actually asked for one?

Gosh. No. That never occurred to me! What a silly sausage I am!

Self employed. Put prices up for first time in 5 years. No pay rise though because extra money is pumped back into supporting my little business. Working more and more hours to make it pay.

Third (charitable) sector here. Have had 1.5% pay rises the last two years.

When I was in the private sector it was much worse, I could easily go 4 or 5 years without a single penny of increase - the only way to get more pay was to change jobs. I also found private sector employment benefits worse - longer and less flexible hours, much less holiday, no subsidisesd perks - just the bare legal minimum of everything basically.

Private sector, my goes up 1% every January , "annual review increase"

I had 5% at annual review and then a surprise 10% at mid term review. My salary has almost doubled in 5 years but my role has grown considerably too.

I'm not public sector but we're also not owned by shareholders, more of a not for profit. No private sector style perks or jollies but the conditions are great.

My earnings have tripled in the past three years.

But I am self employed and business is booming. I struggle to keep up with demand at times.

If your responsibilities have increased you could ask for a pay 'review', different from an annual 'rise'.

I work for the public sector, so no pay rise at all for years and then 1% recently. It's absolutely shit (and complete bollocks that civil service get paid more than private sector - only at the junior levels. At senior levels I could get 2-3x my salary if I worked for an equivalent private firm).

DH works in big corporate (someone has to fund this family), and gets annual pay increases of several %.