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 work in the public sector, so my wages would have fallen by around 10% in real terms since 2009, if I hadn't been promoted in that time - which has been a massive help. I'm getting 1.5% this year, so a real-world pay cut, as inflation is running over 2%. I've got flexible working arrangements, good pension, can work from home if I want to, lease car, so wages are not the only consideration - the overall package is decent.

I work in the public sector and after a pay freeze for the last 9 years we've just been given 1%, so I'm delighted.

I work for a nonprofit and I’m pretty advanced in my career at this point. A stellar raise is even .1 above inflation.

Bigger percentage raises are for younger employees who are making much less overall.

I do miss the kind of raises one could earn in the private sector.

I’m public sector and I just got 2.5%. I’m bloody chuffed! Last year it was about 1%

Private sector and our raises are done in January each year i got the average which was 1.5% and was really disappointed.

This is working for a multinational Ftse 250 company

I try and give my staff 3% each year, but sometimes can only manage 2%

@HavelockVetinari yes that's true, we have a retention pot apparently that we can plead if they want to retain us and as I have a specialist role I'd have a good chance (within my salary range), but I could earn a lot more in the private sector so I will see how I feel in a couple of years. I like working for the government and keep reminding myself of the pension! It's very unlikely I will be progress where I am, dead man's shoes and all that, but hopefully another department one day maybe. G6 is pretty awesome so I wouldn't feel too down about staying there a while, well done you!

We usually give more, but as we've been fairly generous with pay and benchmarked salaries, this year we gave people a 2.5h contracted hours cut with a 1% raise.

People seemed pretty happy with it.

I'm in the not for profit sector. That last few years I've had a 1% pay rise, so not even a cost of living increase.

2.5% seems wonderful in comparison!

5-10% for me. I'd be pissed off with less than 5%. But that is based on my performance. Know of colleagues who are happy with their inflationary raise at the 2-3% rate. If i was offered that i'd argue for more (and have).

I get between 2-4% a year but I’ve also had some significant jumps since starting - I think my highest was almost 25% and I should get around 15% next review (all being well).

I’m in a job where you are contracted for a year at a time. If you chose to stay for another year/are invited to stay for another year, the standard rise is 3% on your basic wage with any increase in your additional payments negotiable.

My current employer payed above the union basic and gave 5% last year.

12%
Nothing less is an insult

Deeply envious of 12%!!!!
We were on a pay freeze for 5 years so probably had a total of around that over last 10/11 years
No wonder I struggle

Very jealous of people getting 10%+… I work for a university and have been getting about around 4.5% for the last few years, but will hit the top of band next year so will only get inflation based rises after that. It’s a much better deal than my last job in a massive multinational.

I guess it depends what you earn, 2.5% of a high salary is ok, 2.5% of a crap salary means it's still a crap salary. it's all relative I guess.

Public sector but not the ones that make good headlines so 1%, as it has been for 7 years. (Not bitter towards those that have got the bigger payrises, I am happy for them I just wish we all got it). The department I work for also comparitively underpays, my role by about £5k, compared to the larger "umbrella" department we sit in for reasons no-one can adequately explain. It is not responsibility level, our department has higher levels of responsibility at lower grades, which is annoying. So the answer is, I would like my base salary to increase in line with the wider department so we were receiving same pay for same work, and the release of the 1% cap so we could at least be in line with inflation. But I know this is not going to happen, especially with Brexit. I suppose I should be grateful I have a job at all, I hope I still do in the coming years.

It must match inflation or it is a pay cut. I know that some companies and employers can't always deliver that for what ever reason, but if it doesn't exceed inflation, don't let them frame it as anything other than a pay cut.

Same as @purplelila2 . I along with most of my colleagues haven't had a pay rise in 2 years and we're FTSE 100.

It must match inflation or it is a pay cut. I know that some companies and employers can't always deliver that for what ever reason, but if it doesn't exceed inflation, don't let them frame it as anything other than a pay cut.

I'm genuinely interested in what you'd think of what we did, which was give a 1% rise, but reduced contractual hours from 40 to 37.5 (making an effective rise of something like 7%). We grant lieu for any overtime hours, which are fairly rare, so that isn't a theoretical hours cut, but a genuine one.

I'm curious because I proposed it, was happy to implement it, and have the impression that staff are happy with it (some very definitely are, and had said to me that more money wasn't especially relevant to them). But you never know what others might think!

Any. Haven’t had one for 4 years!

We've had the hours cut thing before cats but seeing as no-one's workload was cut and overtime was rarely available, the theoretical increase in hourly wage for full time workers made not a blind bit of difference. It just meant we gained more lieu time that no-one had any time to take off.

It was however, good for part time workers, because instead of a 15/37.5 of a full time salary, they generally kept the same hours and got paid 15/35 hours. However, standard hours have now been quietly increased to 37.5 pw with no increase in pay.

All of what @Sciurus83 says

3.5% last year, but that was following a few years of 0%. Charity sector, so am not paid what I would be if I worked the same job but private sector, but then I knew that when I went in.

We've had sweet f.a. for ages. So anything would be good 🥺