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

[daysayso]

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?

What do you want them to do? Their will have gone up too and as a place of business will be using more energy and depending on customers and employers more heating etc...so they will be feeling the pinch too!

If it's a private company then they could raise their prices (which is what everyone else has done) and factor in the cost of increased wages along with everything else. I don't see why wages should take a hit.

All staff earning below £50k Fulk time equivalent received £1200 cost of living bonus which was not pro rata for p/t. All staff earning less than £20k FTE can apply gor additional support especially re energy bills.

Mid size company c6k staff. Very good to employees generally, excellent policies, parental leave etc.

Start up, about 30 staff. Breakfast and lunch provided, as well as tea, proper coffee , snacks, fruit. 5% pay rise in Jan

They increased staff parking charges and put up canteen food prices.

DH - small company. 1 pay rise in the 14 years he has worked there 😮They asked them if they were OK financially but offered nothing.
Me - NHS, so another below inflation pay rise that means I have to pay more pension etc. Slightly better off a month.

Meanwhile the increased mortgage costs 😰

There doing the same for me as I did for them when there profits plummeted and cost spiralled

Nothing. Public sector. They have not even managed to pay the increment I am due.

We all got a 5 percent pay rise and I've also been given another pay rise of 2 percent.
But honestly this would of happened regardless

£1,500 one off payment for those under £30k tapered down to those on £35k

3% payrise this year (March) but looking like this could be higher this year to help against inflation

Received 3% increase in January, then unexpectedly received 2.5% rise in August. A collleague received 5%

Nothing and we already don't have enough resources so I'm buying stuff 🙄

Ok presumably those who have had pay increases work for larger companies and/or the cost of goods at your company has gone up

Private company, approx 60 employees, everyone received between 10-15% increase in salary. Free hot meals at lunch as well as tea, coffee and fruit.

Jesus wept, there's some level of entitlement on here.

DH and I run a small business. We gave them all a 10% pay rise at the start of April this year, they're paid on time, we supply tea/coffee/milk/biscuits, and they have an expensive gas heating system that they keep at a constant 22c whilst working in fucking t shirts.

I didn't realise that we were supposed to do even more than this

4% pay rise in April, I’m hearing 8% for next year.

A special tariff for employees (I work for an energy company) & additional EAP support if required.

No wage increase for 5 years, offered a potential blanket for Xmas. Private sector, 7 employees. Hoping the company offer redundancy.

Got a 1% payrise thats all

All employees earning under £35k got a one off payment of 1500 and a similar company to mine have done the same.

Nothing except we can work on site, rather that at home, so it is a heated place of work with kettles to make hot drinks!

To be fair if you read other posts on here, you're already doing far more than most employers.

If someone has been made redundant, that’s an entirely different situation. if that happened to me, I would have to re-evaluate the market and decide what salary I could get.

In the international company I work in, if they want to make cost savings - then I’m entirely supportive of that and indeed I think they should. Starting with those ineffectual people who rely on presenteeism, or the variety of upper levels who aren’t trying to streamline and work more efficiently either.

My own comp - they would have a hard battle convincing me it’s in my interests to ‘take one for the team and be happy with what I’ve got’, because they know full well I’m worth 10x what I’m paid. Simple as that.

I work for a global company. No help, 2.5% pay offer after nothing last year. We were essentially told we’d have to ‘trade down’ to cope with cost of living increases, but how you do that with rent, mortgages, train tickets, energy bills is anyone’s guess. We are also paid on a performance basis, so untethered from real-world cost increases. Our company’s results were strong the last financial year, strong recovery after Covid flatlining. They lauded that, praised our hard work. Leaves a bit of a bad taste in employees’ mouths.

Nothing apart from a tiny pay rise (after 3 years of no pay rise) and forcing us back into the office so people have to spend money they don't have on commuting.
Pay has gone down in real terms due to inflation, plus the cost of commuting has gone up a lot.....

everyone got 3% rise in August, those on lower salaries got a higher % rise.

We got a pay rise of 3.4% which is shite considering we didn't anything the year before. In fact our staff benefits have been gradually reduced. They used to put on really cheap coach trips, heavily discounted days out/experiences, pizza and film nights, really good catering at events (now been replaced by a boring packed lunch of butties, crisps, chocolate bar and water) etc.... All gone!