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.

5% in April.

Most years that would have been a nice lift, but this year it's not touching the sides of inflation.

My partner has had nothing in 4 years, and as he's self employed in construction (and we know the dubious nature of that when working for the same company for ages, but it seems to be a legit loophole), and due to some NI issues not even getting the Seiss grant in lockdown so I had to carry us, I'm grateful for what we have..but then you look at the wastage with ater companies, electricity etc, and you do get a bit angry.

@IDespairOfTheHumanRace

thats great news, I hope it works out really well for you!!

Yes, hope it works out well!

Didn't get a pay rise but did move up an increment (national payscale)

No. NHS but not AfC, so not eligible for the 3%

YABU and won't get anything like 11% or whatever inflation is gong to be.

@IDespairOfTheHumanRace how horrible of your employer. I'm so sorry you lost your mum. My mum died 5 days ago. She was 86 but fit and healthy until May so a huge shock. I could not work just now. My mind is mush as I'm sure yours was. I'm off until next Friday then have 2 weeks annual leave so very fortunate. I'm a GP so relying on colleagues to cover me. Hope you're doing ok. X

6% at the beginning of June backdated to April.

In line with RPI of the time about 8% bit we had a 3 yr pay agreement and did not forcast how inflation was going to rise. Most of us are in a union, one of 3. I don't think we'll get a payrise like that next year.

I earn an hourly rate - I started in 2004 on £20 an hour, now it’s £21.15.
18 years and that’s what I get.

18, that’s meant to say

Do you work for a local council?

@Oldrockingchair

Mine is very similar, I haven't had a pay rise since 2013 😬 but it is flexible and I can work when I want as long as I do the hours. It suits at the moment with childcare and my son has special needs so I can be about for him

@krj260888 it’s hard isn’t it. It amounts to an enormous pay cut essentially. There’s no point me trying to leave though as it’s fairly industry- standard (I work in the leisure industry) so it’s not much different anywhere else. When I started it was a really good hourly rate, now it’s just about enough 😬 I love where I work too so am loathe to leave in case I go somewhere else for an extra few ££ and hate it!

Wow.

That is appalling and shows the compression on middle incomes that’s been happening for the last couple of decades. Meantime - housing has quadrupled.

I'm leaving my current job, but I was told a few months ago that we'd be receiving a small pay rise that would equate to a (gross) FT increase of £1500. For context my old salary was actually less than the new NLW, so it would have had to have gone up anyway, they were just going to put it up slightly more. I later had to get a letter for the mortgage lender which said my returning salary FT would be NLW, which was less than we got told it would be. Handed my notice in recently and then received the annual pay review correspondence saying my salary would 'stay the same' as last year. Even though that would have been illegal as it was less than the new NLW! I work in LAW ffs.

Anyway am moving jobs - to NHS - and will be earning more.

Yes - my company (you can easily google who, but I'd rather not say outright!) gave everyone in certain paygrades a £1200 payrise this month. I'm on top banding for my role (£45k) but minimum wage in the company is about £23k so it's pretty decent I think.

What wasn't (I don't think) shared with the media is that the pay rise will comprise part of the normal pay rise round which happens at the end of the financial year. So we are just getting it early.

(I did also get £3k payrise in April so we're in an ok position as a family).

I’m self employed mostly so it doesn’t apply. With the employed side of my working life I did have a minor payrise in April. I left an education job last year and hadn’t had a payrise in a decade.

yes 2% in theory but the pot was spread evenly across all employees so that those on lower salaries received a higher % pay rise (and those on higher salaries a lower %).

Nope!
TA here and not a whiff of a pay rise!

Apparently as an upper pay scale teacher I get 5% but in reality I won’t see any of it as I work part time and am a single parent so receive tax credits. Any extra I earn drops off my tax credits. Too expensive to move schools and no full time positions available at current school - not that I could manage full time at the moment due to family responsibilities. Looking into career changes but not east as it looks - over qualified and under experienced in a lot of sectors

My condolences, that's a rotten employer right there and would have been enough to make me look elsewhere. How on earth did they justify that?!

Yes. I'm in the insurance industry.
But, it was to bring salaries in line with the market & done in the hope to retain staff they didn't want to leave.