What has your employer done to support you with the cost of living increases?

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If anything?

Can you specify what they've done and also approx the size of your company in terms of number of employees.

My company has done nothing and I'm a bit miffed about it and wandering if this is normal or not given the current crisis?

Approx 250 staff - decided against one off cost of living payouts and went with starting point of 10% pay rises for all levels, increased more for some for good performance

In theory I think employers should increase wages in line with inflation along with their other outgoings which have increased but i know it doesn't always happen. I can already see salaries being advertised for similar jobs to mine lower than they were a few years ago.

Extra 2.5% pay rise a few months after the annual payrise which was also 2.5%

Few extra staff discount event

Another local authority, we are now allowed to claim the mileage that we actually do rather than from some arbitrary ‘base’, which is more help that I thought we’d get to be fair.

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in some ways I really hope inflation continues to go up stratospherically, just so people with this sort of attitude also get wrecked for being such smug twits.

Oh please. After years of wage stagnation most people have had enormous real terms pay cuts. Meanwhile big business have been making record profits.
And working from home saves money? Really? We're still shelling out for trains twice a week, on top of that we have to find space for a home office. Space is far more expensive than a commute.

Nothing good, only 3 employees including me, and theyve reduced our hours!

10% pay rise for waged (low paid) workers. That's not 10% on take home pay as the tax brackets haven't changed, so still below inflation.

Jack shit, but in fairness they pay me for going to work and that's all I expect really.

Civil service in an area that the new government consider unnecessary red tape holding up development so a spit in the eye and employment uncertainty I guess. On top of 10 years of pay freeze.

My husband works for a very wel known global company and he recieved a thousand pounds cost of living payment, I was really touched at such a lovely gesture.

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Nothing, civil Service and unions have rejected our 3 year pay rise which is the best we'll get for a while. It looks like we may get 1% if they can do that, even worse when you consider the unions didn't even ballot their members, just the seniors decided- not like they will struggle to pay their bills.

Nothing, huge multinational conglomerate, so that probably skews it tbh, they look global. Fully performance related pay increases, based on performance relative to your global peers.

We're struggling to recruit in the UK and have attrition and not able to replace those who have left. We have so much work and not enough people.

Gave pay rises in the spring, for some, the first in 5 years.

Has decided the firm can’t afford to pay Christmas bonuses this year, despite it having been a very turbulent year for staff and in the past the bonus has been to balance out the shit salaries. It hasn’t been announced yet and we usually get the bonus in November’s wages and so a lot of us will not have enough time to budget for Christmas, which I know is a first world problem but it’s really shit.

We’re a small professional firm and a few members of staff have been headhunted via LinkedIn and will probably leave in the coming months and we won’t be able to replace them. It’s going to be really hard.

Pay increases generally 2-2.5% for a good performance, far from stellar.

Well known, high street bank. £1500 pay rise a couple of months ago for staff earning less than £35k. Didn’t apply to me, I got 1%, but I’m very fairly paid, and whilst I’m feeling the pinch like everyone else, I fully support their approach.

Staff under a certain salary level got a one off lump sum payment of between 500 and 800.

We have been given the option for 6 month break from
Employee contributions to pension scheme. Employer will still fund their % during this time.

I think those who are shrugging at employers doing nothing and saying ‘I’m just glad they pay me’ must be the sort of jobsworth type workers who are at their desk, diligently typing always and producing absolutely nothing of value.

If you are a high performer, then sure as shit you expect to get compensated properly and you increase your demands in line with the devaluation of the currency.

I work for a large national telco company (7k plus employees) and we are giving all staff who earn less than £35k pa (base salary) a one off cost of living payment of £1400, paid over a number of months. This is in addition to the annual pay rise and any bonuses.
C50% of staff qualify for this payment. I don’t qualify for it myself but fully support it going to those who need it most

I field lots of telephone calls each week from people looking for jobs because they have either been made redundant or the company they work for has gone bankrupt. Our pay is decent, anything more would be foolhardy.

They made redundancies

Financial firm
1-2k employees

Everyone earning under 40k are getting a monthly £100 which will be taxed I don't qualify

We did get a wfh allowance which has now been absorbed into our wages

Charity registered childrens health type role; % pay rise on top of usual yearly increment (around £800) and a one off payment of £750

One off £1000 cost of living payment in August. 38,000 employees I think.

Supermarket. £150 on our store card in total this winter and extra staff discount on own brand goods for the winter. Would prefer a payrise but still good to get something.