Pay rises

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Hopefully this won't come across as insensitive but I am wondering what pay rises if any people are expecting this year? On the one hand we are told it will make inflation worse but then bankers have had record bonuses & Ive seen some posts on here taking about double digit % pay rises. Mine is 2%, better than nothing obviously but not much help.

Tiny shade under 3% here. It's more than I was expecting and pays for the NI and council tax increases, so overall I don't feel too hard done too. Tiny bonus too, again, grateful for it, as it wasn't expected.

0.5% for my company but luckily I’ve just gone up 2 grades this month so will get an additional 5%. Still a real terms pay cut but I’m relatively pleased.

I will be getting 3% plus an increment which is roughly 3% of my overall pay, plus about 1% bonus, but a drop of about 15% total income due to reducing overtime.

In all I hope to end up only slightly worse off this year.

The other half has just asked for 100% and drop a day a week, will probably settle for 40% but going from 5 to 4 days a week.

0% for me. Teachers are not receiving a pay rise this year.

2% which was subject to union vote and got overwhelming support (apart from my vote and a few others!).

4% and a HUGE bonus of a whole £150.

My husband is in the Police and I cant remember the last time he had a payrise that wasnt just by virtue of being promoted.

No idea, none probably, I'm self-employed so rely on other businesses paying me, which they do, eventually, so far.

Thought I'd like a bit of employment stability, holiday pay and a little smattering of rights so started applying for PAYE jobs a few months ago. Not on your Nellie am I wanted.

From the aspitational to the basic -no one wants me. It's a sad state of affairs that all that's left is Adult Social Care as an employment option.

Not for me, but for all the Adult Social Care Clients who are cared for by people forced into the job because i's the only job going?

Whatever pay increases anyone gets is good - because no matter what they are - living costs are going to reduce them. Many will have no pay increase at all so count yourself lucky if you get one.

I am not expecting a pay rise. I had one last year which was the first one in three years. What usually happens (I have been with the same company for 7 years), is that when my hourly rate is about to be on or below the min wage they give me a rise.

3% for both of us.

Oh I forgot to add, on top of my no pay rise for 10+ years… I do actually get a £5 Tesco voucher every Christmas. Does that count?

Not sure what to expect for me but where I work they're channelling the payrise budget predominantly into rises for the lowest paid to keep them on a living wage rather than just minimum wage which I think is fair.

@RoseMartha - ain't that the truth. Hard to believe that the need for a NMW needed to exist in the first place - but it did; too many places employing people (mostly women) at £1-2ph during the 1990s.

Many here deploring their mediocre pay-rises don't even have NMW as their base rate. Take a trip on that ship then moan about your poor pay and employment t&c to those that are paid NMW with little or none other employment opportunities available.

@Shadowboy here are the DfE proposals for teacher pay for the next couple of years.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachmentdata/file/1058855/STRBBWrittenEvidencee2022.pdf

Apologies if you aren't in England or Wales, in which case it won't be relevant.

Public sector - 1.75% rise. Whoopee

We all got 3% last November backdated to April which was nice!

I've also just successfully campaigned for an additional 5% increase for my direct report which I was really happy with! I was a salary negotiation virgin before yesterday!

@Fifthtimelucky I think the reason teachers keep saying 0% is because the people who review teacher's pay have made similar recommendations before regarding pay etc and the government ignore it 🤷‍♀️ as a teacher I honestly have no clue as to what to expect

@flumposie the document I have linked to is not the recommendations of the pay review body, which obviously the Government could ignore. it's the Government's own proposals.

I have assumed - possibly erroneously - that they wouldn't propose something and then agree something lower.

I'm not a teacher but my daughter is currently training to be a teacher so the proposed increase for NQTs is of great interest!

@Fifthtimelucky I guess time will tell. My neice is hoping to train as a teacher so it will be interesting to see. I'm in my 25th year of teaching so I'm waiting to see what happens to experienced teacher's pay.

[quote Fifthtimelucky]@flumposie the document I have linked to is not the recommendations of the pay review body, which obviously the Government could ignore. it's the Government's own proposals.

I have assumed - possibly erroneously - that they wouldn't propose something and then agree something lower.

I'm not a teacher but my daughter is currently training to be a teacher so the proposed increase for NQTs is of great interest! [/quote]
Unfortunately you may find out the hard way then. The last time the Government/DofE gave teachers a payrise they advertised it through the media so everyone knew about it and then told schools it had to be funded from their existing budgets. So any schools that were able to give the payrise had to cut back something else.

It's a repeating trick but the Government/DofE seem to have the public firmly in the belief that the issue is "teachers and schools" rather than funding being the issue behind most of the educational issues out there

Smoke and mirrors

Private sector, company implemented performance ratings & tied pay increases to them. This year I've got 8% which compared to previous years of a measly 1-2% feels like I've won the lottery!

I'd say it would be unusual to see double digit increases in the UK outside of promotions or market adjustments for employees who weren't being paid adequately compared to the market to start with.

Police staff nothing here for 2nd year running prior to that capped at 1%

I had a job at the start of the pandemic which was for 16k only in Feb 2020 full time, I watched others being furloughed whilst working as a dog. I am glad I found the strength in the last 2 years to see that rise ensured to £20k plus. Whilst others may not support me I realised you need to look after number 1.

Pay CUT this year for me

5% but only on a temp
Contract and wage is low for what I do , so may apply for another role in the company on better pay and prob equivalent or less work than i do now
It won't cover the bill increases we have though

8.75% but I moved paybands 18 months ago, I’m at the lower end, should get fairly decent pay rises until I catch up provided my appraisals are good, people at the top of their paybands only got 2%,