To ask what % pay rise you would be happy with?

[coffeeforone]

Recently got 2.5% and pretty happy with it. However a colleague who got the same is disappointed as she was expecting more and a few others got a higher % (same monetary rise e.g. £1500 but lower starting salary). I think 2.5% is fine, would you expect more than this?

(Private sector, medium size profitable company.)

I got 1.5%
It'll pay for a coffee a week

Anything more than 0.

I think it HAS to cover inflation, and it should cover an acknowledgment of your increased experience or relevant training you have undertaken in the year.

I got 2% which I was happy with as I’m paid well for my job, have good work-life balance, flexibility and like what I do.

A pay rise has to be inflation plus x percent . Other wise its just keeping pace, not a rise. Inflation plus 2%, those heady 80's days of 25% rises are long gone, sadly

Depends what it’s for I guess. If it’s for an increase in responsibility or completion of a qualification then I’d like a little more. Unfortunately most of them result in bigger all difference in take home pay.

Anything seeing as I've had precisely 0% for about 10 years now.

I’ve not had a pay rise since 2009. Our company doesn’t do them.

2.5% is barely keeping up with inflation, so it isn't a rise in any meaningful sense. However, these days most people don't get an annual rise that keeps pace with inflation, sadly.

I'm on a formula which gives me the average between CPI and the average weekly earnings index.

In the year to September 2018, those were 2.4% and 3.2% respectively, so I got a rise of 2.8% paid from September 2019 (don't ask me to explain why it's a year behind.)

So I'm ahead of inflation (yay!) but doing worse than the average earner (boo). However, when prices are rising faster than earnings, I don't fall behind as quickly as the average earner. Swings and roundabouts.

Thanks for the replies. it seems pretty common to freeze pay for years, I'm now more grateful than I was earlier. My colleague comes from an industry where big % increases are more common so I think she hasn't gotten used to the inflationary increases our company offer.

Public sector here, lucky if I get 1%. My wages have reduced massively when inflation is taken into account, with a knock on effect on my pension.

Is it a cost of living rise or a pay rise? 2.5% on top of cost of living would be fine, but I would be disappointed if the 2.5% was all I got. As cost of living rise is around that this year it would effectively mean no actual pay rise.

I got 1%.

2.5% is barely anything. That's what I get in public sector well less than that actually...2%.

I got .2%

I’ve been there nearly 2 years

I’d love a bigger rise ☺️

I'd definitely take 11.5%, unlike the BA pilots!

Public servant, we are getting 2% this year I think. I'd only be "happy" if it was above inflation really as isn't that the point? DH got 2.9% so we were happy with that. I am on the civil service scales so I am on a fixed wage barring the cost of living increase, makes me so cross I won't get to the top of the scale (as it stands) that said I know I'm lucky to get the cost of living increase, my last job had just stopped it.

We get anything from 0% to 3% depending on where we are on a scale. Gallingly, if you get promoted, unless you're considerably below the minimum for the step up, you only get an extra 5%. For taking on lots of new responsibilities.

When I worked for a smaller organisation my annual increase in salary and role were great. I'm always happy to keep progressing and taking on more but don't feel very well rewarded for it.

@pimbee yeah it sucks that there's no progression pay any more - basically the only way to get a proper raise above inflation is a promotion. It's definitely spurred me on to get my SCS1 soon, but I'd rather have taken a few years at G6 so I can concentrate on DS.

I got 1%. That's the most I've had in 10 years.

Also civil service by the way. We aren't all getting those massive 2% increases...

Public sector here and we are getting 2% this year which is the most we've had in a decade. I was pretty pleased but everyone is moaning about it so maybe I should raise my expectations?!

I tend to get between 4 and 5%

Id be happy with 2.5%. I'm well paid though. I think if you're at the lower end of the spectrum the extra 1% probably makes more difference.

Is this an inflation pay rise? We don't get anything. But that doesn't mean I think others should be as poorly done by! (museum /charity) I think it should cover inflation.