I know I'm being U to ask, but I'm curious...

[Payrise]

I've recently left a job after 8 years.

In those 8 years my pay rose just less than £2000, due to company wide pay rises but sometimes I'd get a little extra (ie the company got 2% but I got 5). I was rewarded in other ways - I was supported through a professional qualification - but not through promotion. This was working for a massive, national company that you would have heard of.

I'm just curious to know how much your pay has increased if you been there a similar length of time, or even less.

In my experience changing employer leads to salary increases, promotions within a company tend to move you to ‘bottom of new job’ whereas changing company you can negotiate and you are able to leverage your actual experience instead of the company simply hiding behind ‘you are new to role’.

The exception is roles which have a pre agreed progression plan linked to qualifications (eg accountancy, legal etc).

Saying that, blue chips tend to have a generic 2% a year or whatever cost of living is agreed with the unions so there are small increases, and managers then have a discretionary pot to move people up through the pay scale - but it’s not a big pot so progress is inevitably very very slow. (My sample is 3 blue chip financial orgs)

about 7.5 in 12 years, work in independent school - admin.

Nhs so i have no choice im on a payscale thats agreed by gov and the unions.

Agriculture - no pay rise in 10yrs. Husband no pay rise for 15. Represents an actual cut, as the same money is obviously worth less now.

DH is a manager in retail. He's been with his current company (huge high street retailer) for 3 years and his salary has increased £7500 in that time.

@adagio that is very true.

Internal promotions are so often the bare minimum with the 'lucky' recipient having been performing the role for months before the company finally recognises this.

Been at the same company 9 years this year, pay has increased 27k. About to jump another 10k off the back of a promotion. Pretty standard in the industry I'm in.

Hmm I've only stayed in one job that long, my first proper job after graduating and my salary went from 17 to 40 in that time frame.
But I left that 15 years ago and know employers have been tighter since.

20 to 22 in eight years feels like going backwards to me. Especially relative to minimum wage which has had several hikes in that time frame.

Argh. Public sector here. I’ve been in my job nearly 10 years. The first year my pay jumped £3k then pay freeze for years and then 1a% pa for a few years. So maybe £4K in 10 years. Awful but I love my job.

My job has increased by £8k in 3 years.

This is pay rises and not promotions.

To be honest I had expected more myself and am aiming for another £10k within the next year

Been at my work for 4 years, in that time I've had a promotion and am now on £10k more

I have had a pay rise of approximately nothing... I’ve been in the same unfairly paid industry for 7years.

28% in 7 years. One promotion, annual chat if living rises and a couple of industry benchmarking rises.

I've been with the same very large plc for 16 years. We get a routine annual pay rise roughly in line with inflation, though this can be higher some years depending on company or personal performance. You really have to change roles or earn a promotion for a meaningful increase. My basic salary has increased 50% since I started and total package has increased by about 130%. I consider myself extremely lucky as I know a lot of people have seen their wages frozen for years on end in the same period.

Started 10yrs ago on £25000 and now I earn £52000 but that includes extra payments for areas of responsibility.

My wage has risen in line with inflation +0.25%-0.5%/year for the last 5 years. It’s company wide payrise, and the higher years reflected wide ranging company restructures, 0.25% years were part of long term pay deals. In real terms, my pay has risen about 1.5-2% over 5 years, around 13% including inflation.

Started in 2013 on 45 I think. It’s tripled since then but I’ve been promoted twice.

I have received regular pay rises of around 3% each year, but I work for a masssive organisation and am in a large recognised union. I have also been at the top of my pay scale for donkeys years.

I think we had one year during the last recession when we didn’t get anything, and that is in 33 years. But we were all pretty glad still to have jobs so no drama.

Professionally qualified as a social worker, started on £22k, moved up to £32k three years later (had to be very assertive to get this), then jumped ship to a different job paying £40k.

Civil service, top of pay scale, because of pay freezes basically nothing. Effectively a pay cut as salary buys less than it did 10 years ago. But, job is stress free and very flexible, so I'm staying for now.

In the last 8 years, precisely £0, due to a combination of government austerity and organisational changes meaning that you either had to move over onto new T&Cs that were worse in some ways, but would allow small cost of living increases, or keep the better T&Cs at the expense of any pay rise at all.

Means that a quite decent salary is starting to look a bit rubbish for the job and we're losing staff rapidly and struggle to recruit. The working enviroment isn't too bad and many people are settled with houses, DCs in schools, partners jobs etc, so leaving would mean moving areas as the job is very niche and no other employers do the same thing locally.

Basically in a similar position to MrMen .

God mine increased £3000 after 6 months!

I've been with my company and my pay has more than doubled as I've moved from role to role.