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.

My job is unionised and even the union can’t get us anything decent . Private sector. But company is losing money. The whole industry is in huge decline and is now in rapid decline due to artificial intelligence. Starting salaries are the same now as 25 years ago . You would never get a pay rise by asking.

turned I work in FE, and am at the top of the teaching payscale. No cost of living rises for the last three years, while the workload gets larger! I do earn a good salary, despite that.

I started on around £17k in 2008 and by 2014 I was on £21k (ish) basic. This was inbound telephony for a contact centre.

I still work there but I’ve had two promotions; the first took me up to £25k the second up to £35k. I’m now on the basic for my grade but hoping for a decent rise next year, or even another promotion.

Well I’m a teacher and gave up work 6 years at 28k and I have just gone back to work at 40k euro (which is approx 34k sterling I think?) not the same but anyway.

In 8 years no pay rise. Fairly much top of my scale. Opportunity to earn more via overtime

Another teacher here. Feeling after reading how our pay has stagnated in comparison.

Yet another teacher - 2k in three years despite doing basically the work of two additional TLRs with no acknowledgement. It’s miserable. Am looking for another job was offered one in a god awful school but it’s very slim pickings.

Law firm. Worked there for 4 and a half years various pay rises meant I left with a salary 5k higher than when I started.

They usually gave everyone a payrise of at least 1k a year, I got one of 2k one of the years due to increasing caseloads. A bribe to deal with the rising levels of stress I imagine.

I've gone to a smaller, more relaxed firm now without as much means to offer such regular rises however, I did join on my existing salary which I am happy with and wouldn't have been able to negotiate if it weren't for my old firm.

I've been in jobs where you get the nonsense 20ph rise but now I contract project to project and negotiate my pay at the beginning of each one. You don't get a payrise throughout the project. I've just recently started a new contract at £5 more ph than my last one.

In almost 9 years I've had an £8k pay rise. One move up and one sideways move in that time

In my job, I've had above inflation annual increases.
I do have a bit more responsibility, nothing major though. It's a small but very flexible company, I'd rather stay here than risk going somewhere I don't like, the people are absolutely lovely. When my Dad was ill I didn't have to go in for example.

Mine increased by £13k in a year as I had a promotion. I’ve nowhere else to go here so I plan on doing another 2 -3 years where I am and then I’ll move on and will be looking at another £10k min, pref £15, I won’t go for less than £10 to make it worth my while. You generally have to move jobs to get the pay rises

I've been in my job just over 3 years and my pay has risen by about £4,500. I do earn more than you - we have received 2-% a year since I started plus we get automatic increments up the scale - I've just reached the max so next year it will be just the minimum 2%.

I have worked with my company for 10 years now a big company ,

Started on £18500 and now on £42000 plus car allowance - this was through promotions and 3% payrise yearly

Policy advisor in civil service. Pay freeze for last 10 years. PCS are about to ballot for strike action I think

When I started my job with my current employer in September 2009 my salary was £35,800. In the 2018/19 tax year I earned a tiny bit under £140,000. I’ve been promoted 3 times during that period.

Take comfort that their failure to give pay raises to people whose skills have increased on their dime will eventually come back to bite them in the butt big time, as will the culture of bumping people up with no advertising. They are going to lose people who could contribute and their competition will gain.

Hazarding a guess here, but were those promoted in the time you were left languishing all male? Was there a culture of dismissing the contribution of women since your company was in the construction area?

Mines gone gone up by around 35% since I started there, almost 5 years ago. A mixture of promotion and annual pay reviews

Started a job in 2008 at 16.5K per year. Left in 2017 on...16.5k per year. Bastards.

I started teaching in 1998 on about £14,750. I’m now on £39,000.

However, I’m only part time because the job is so horrible, so for my own mental and emotional health, I only actually take home about the same as what I did 20 years ago.

The other issue is that head teachers pretty much have the choice of employing me or 2 x NQTs (£22k ish) so I’m also increasingly unemployable in the current economic situation!

Been in my job 5 yrs and my salary has gone up by £3k gross in that time.

I'm midway in my salary grade but merit rises are 1.5 - 3% annually

And in those 5 yrs 2 people have left and their duties given to me

In 20months I've gone from £16K to £27K through payrises and 1 promotion working for a supermarket.

I started part time working around the kids at school and now work full time. I genuinely enjoy my job and have further training planned which will lead to progression

***Hazarding a guess here, but were those promoted in the time you were left languishing all male? Was there a culture of dismissing the contribution of women since your company was in the construction area?

The construction industry if anything is pushing for more women and actively looking to train and promote. I think that was just a bad company as all I have worked for have bent over backwards to support and not lose me- I am good at my job but also know am good for the female quota!

Without being too outing, in the past a position was created and given to two males without it being advertised.

One 100% deserved it. The other had absolutely no experience in our department and was brought in after being made redundant in a different department and a manager putting in a good word. They were then promoted. Their previous role wasn't replaced.

I then started the qualification (which neither of them had) and was told that they "can't just create a position for me" and that maybe after I fully qualify something might happen. Then that entire level was made redundant so there wasn't a position anymore. Which is when further education was offered.

So, while it worked out the best for me, they were not made to jump through hoops and given false promises in order to progress.