To ask if you've had a payrise yet?

[SwanBuster]

Simply put - is your company proactively raising salaries/wages, or have you got zero?

For the voting option:

YABU - no payrise
YANBU - yes, got a pay rise.

I'll kick it off.

Zero, work in tech. A large nominal salary, but no pay rise is a pay cut with inflation as it is.

CS here, not heard anything about it yet, but hopefully. I am one of the lowest earners in the CS so often we are the ones that get a pay rise but other grades don't. 1% of fuck all is fuck all, 1% on a 100k salary would be excellent. I think % raises should be banned and all workers should get a % of the rise 'pot' - so if the pot is worth £1000 and there are 100 workers they all get a tenner. Kind of thing.

Do you work part time?

As that's a shockingly low salary (my 17 year old sibling earns more than that 3 days a week!)

Me university, 3%. My husband finance, 5% and an extra £1,000 cost of living payment.

The last I heard, was that my employer was in talks with the Trade Unions, but no news yet.

I've been at my company for under a year, so I don't know what previous awards have been (colleagues have said around 2%).

My DH got 20% in March and then another 8% in July. (Senior programmer)
I got 12%.

I got a normal annual payrise in March backdated to January, 4% then an additional 5% cost of living rise in July.

They're continuing to keep an eye and in the absence of further government help, i suspect there'll be a lump sum towards the end of the year.

Payrise? You jest, surely? But then, I work for an employer who didn't even alllow me any compassionate leave when my mum died last year - not even for the funeral!

NHS.
We had a tiny pay rise earlier this year, I think, but it was immediately swallowed up by the increase in NI payments, and I'm £30 a month worse off than I was this time last year.

DH has. Already on a low wage and it's less than 1% so in real terms, it's a pay cut. But it's better than nothing I suppose.

Zero!

Haven't had a pay rise since 2013 😬😳

OP here - This correlates to the data seeing in the sector too. My firm is in trouble if it doesn't keep up.

In 4 years, 1% , public sector

Why have you stayed?

I'm starting to think there is something in the trope around women being their own worst enemies regarding the gender pay gap!

A colleague retired. So in September I'll be taking on her job as well as my own. I'll be getting her salary, which is more than I was on, but not getting my old salary too, so twice as much work for a bit more money.

DH had a really good pay rise and a generous cost of living bonus (tech). This week they are taking about restructuring and redundancies. Id rather they had been less generous and kept everyone on.

Everyone who earns under £35k got a one off lump sum, payable in two instalments: it's caused uproar.

•Employees on UC will hardly see any of it as their UC will be reduced
•the employees who do receive it are mostly youngsters and most likely live at home
•employees with partners who are also employees both receive it, so two lump sums, one set of bills
•people on lower salaries who have partners who earn £££££ get it
• people who earn £1 over the cut off are pissed off
•people who earn more, but don't have any extra disposable income are pissed off.

The general sentiment is "nice gesture, poorly executed".

10%, tech sector.

From £9.36 to £10.10 on 1st July. Supermarket job.
when I first started with them 4 years ago I would say the wage was fair, today we have skeleton staff and apparently are still overspent on wages as a store and the workload has increased significantly. I started training through uni 2 years ago, they won’t see me for dust this time next year once I’ve graduated

We got 3.5% in April but currently discussing giving a one off payment to everyone for fuel increases
This would be based on hours worked not salary

I have stayed as it fits around childcare. I was the manager but changed roles a few years and now work from home. It's a childcare setting so my own children can go for a significantly reduced rate. I'm a manager there. In 2013, I started £6 above minimum wage, now it's around £1 something. I am looking at changing. I'm on maternity leave at the moment but looking for something else

Our pay reviews are in spring, I got 3.5%.

However we got a lump sum one off ‘cost of living’ payment this month which was worth about £800 after tax/NI/student loan etc.

@AnnaFri

I have stayed as it fits around childcare. I was the manager but changed roles a few years and now work from home. It's a childcare setting so my own children can go for a significantly reduced rate. I'm a manager there. In 2013, I started £6 above minimum wage, now it's around £1 something. I am looking at changing. I'm on maternity leave at the moment but looking for something else

I got a payrise in March/April whilst on Mat Leave. About 1k added to my salary. Hadn’t had a payrise since 2019 so not exactly thrilling given I’d missed 2 other payrises, thanks Covid 😮‍💨

Oops made a mistake on mine it was £9.56 to £10.10

I got 3% at Christmas. My boss couldn't see why I was pissed off with this and his excuse of poor business management. I'm on maternity leave but will be looking elsewhere for my return next year. Oh and we only get SMP 👋

Teacher, private school, 3%