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.

Ive moved up in roles over 8 years but salary increase is £15k. In terms of pay rises we go up every april by about £500 but im at the top of my scale now so will just stay where i am.

Started in 2013 on £21.5k, left in 2017 on £29k and now on £44k in new company.

£2k in 8 years is dreadful.

My salary has almost doubled since I started 11 years ago. £17k to £32k. From salary revalorisation to promotion.

Private sector. c.23k increase in 9 years. One promotion in that time. Hoping to get another bump up this year due to increased responsibilities.

I think it depends on the company culture. It's pretty much the norm to try and keep wages as low as possible to maximise profit. Generally the only way to get a decent pay rise is to keep moving jobs regularly as they will pay whatever the market demands to recruit someone but will then try not to increase salary at all.

There are some companies with quite a different approach, they aim to keep wages near the top of the industry range and maximise profits by having good quality staff and low turn-over. I used to work for a company like that and they had motivated staff and low turnover. It wasn't just the wage thing, it was a general atmosphere of respect for staff. The company was sold a couple of times and eventually we were owned by a Hong-Kong based company. The only time I had a pay rise after that was when I found another job and they gave me over 10% pay rise and more flexible hours to keep me.

Similar really. 8 years in post. Two 1 pc raises. The last 4 years ago. Two 200 pound bonuses before deductions. Pretty sucky . Can barely cover bills.

Started on £17,500 3 years ago, on £21,500 now, one promotion in that time and an extended maternity leave

I took a massive pay cut to do my current job, but got a 5% payrise and small bonus in the first 12 months.

I have a 'job', not a career and it's jumped 15% in almost 2 years. Increase of 3% last april, increase of % 2 this April, and I also got an increase halfway through last year because I asked for it. It's below the national average wage though so not significant and I'm close to the top of my bracket now. I won't get away with asking for a pay rise again either so I will be looking at other jobs over the next year or so.

Mine's gone up 6% in that time period. Despite a 'promotion'.

I'm a teacher. Don't think I've had a payrise in over 10 years (maybe more).

Well I’ve had two promotions in the last 8 years so my salary has gone up by about £22k; if I’d stayed in the same role, it would probably have been about £2k as well.

In 13 years I started on £22k and left on £38k but I changed job a few times and climbed the ladder to being a manager. Could have earnt more base salary elsewhere but the benefits were superb so I stayed.

ohdeargod I was coming on to say the same thing! In actual terms teachers have had a 24% pay cut in the last 15 years. I'm in Scotland so getting a hard fought 3% this year and another 7% over the nextv3 years.

Has anyone here asked for a payrise and been given one?

I remember I did this once years ago. I complied a case for a raise and presented it, only to be told that it was a very worthy case and they would consider me for a raise in the future but the truth was the company was making cut backs so no.

It was true, they were in a mess and redundancies followed, but it put me off from asserting myself like that again, it was a lot of faff and made me realise all of the factors that play behind the scenes. I never did it again.

Over the last 8 years I've increased by 60% but that was by changing jobs. When I spent 3 years working for one large company I didn't get a rise for the entire time.

There's no incentive to give employees good pay raises and you generally need to move jobs.

I’m a civil servant, have been in my job 5 years and due to caps on spending my pay has risen by £1200 😡. My job and responsibilities have however quadrupled... I’ve never worked for a company for so long and had such a minimal pay rise. Opportunities for promotion in my work is also limited. It’s a good job I like my job!!

Over nine years I've had one promotion; other than that, we get about 2-3% annual increases, so my salary only creeps up slowly. However I've now reached the point where another big jump (promotion) nobbles our tax credits award, so for every £1000 annual salary, I'm actually only about £50pa better off after the tax credits go down. So I'm now only trying for promotion when it's a role that I really really want.

I'm 34, started my job 7 years ago, but including 2 maternity leave years so essentially 5 years of working. My pay has increased £30,000 in that time, which is 2 promotions and yearly increments. I work for a large global company.
£2000 in 8 years is essentially a pay drop OP, and is not good!

easier said than done isnt it just leaving a job to go somewhere else-then youre not protected again for 2 years

i think my dh has had a pay rise of roughly 2-3% every year for 15 years-i know other friends have had nothing though in 6 years

I work in a school - no pay rise since 2008.

I worked for a company for 8 years, in the private sector where pay is not great.
Looking after our most precious members of society.

I have a level 3 qualification, CPD of my own back, and a good few years of working in other very similar areas,

I was paid the same as the non qualified, unexperienced people who worked there.

A colleague, Deputy, asked for a pay rise, and was told the company couldn't afford it, and they would understand if my colleague wished to find other employment.

I left, I now work in a school, so due to pay levels, a small pay rise.

I started my current job in summer 2016 and my pay has increased by £6.5k since then. But my role has developed also in that time.

I've been in the charity sector for 2.5 years and we get a 2% increase every year. Approx £200 per year for my salary. There are no pay scales. I'm not in the charity sector intentionally, I couldn't find anything in the public or private sectors.

@GabsAlot

That protection after two years isn't worth much. If a company decides to make you redundant they will and the statutory redundancy pay isn't a huge amount.

In fifteen years of working I've had my job outsourced to India twice, the company bought by another and most of the staff laid off and a company sale where I didn't want to work on the new contract. Working for more than two years would have made no difference to me in those situations.

I'd rather move jobs every 3-4 years than stay somewhere a long time and hope they give me a pay rise.

I've decided that long term I'm better off being a contractor on 6-12 month contracts and planning for the uncertainty rather than hoping everything will stay the same.