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

249 replies

daysayso · 03/10/2022 21:28

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?

OP posts:
camperjam · 03/10/2022 22:25

I work in the public sector and haven't had anything yet.
DH works for the public sector and had had an 11% payrise.

Queuesarasarah · 03/10/2022 22:25

Nothing

SofiaSoFar · 03/10/2022 22:26

...because they know full well I’m worth 10x what I’m paid. Simple as that.

And modest, too.

RoseMartha · 03/10/2022 22:26

Nothing and no pay rise this year and wfh.

FourChimneys · 03/10/2022 22:27

Self employed. I gave myself a small pay rise but less than I might have done as I only increased fees by a small amount this year.

Adult DS has been given £250 by a smallish company.

Squirrelsquirrel · 03/10/2022 22:29

Nothing. We've not a pay rise in 5 years so they are hardly going to start handing out cash now.

BlackCatTabbyCat · 03/10/2022 22:30

£1 per hour payrise to help with cost of living. Job which requires no skill and is in no way professional. My mum works in a stressful NHS role which requires qualifications and I revelive almost the same amount of money as her per hour Sad

BlackCatTabbyCat · 03/10/2022 22:31

Receive. What is revelive 😂

Raquelos · 03/10/2022 22:32

Company size 65 people. City-based in London.

5% cost of living payment to everyone earning under £50k. likely to review and repeat early next year.

CaptainBarbosa · 03/10/2022 22:32

3% pay rise in April.

They pay me a decent wage for the work I do, my home life balance is great and I'm a hybrid work model 3 days WFH and 2 days office based.

I like my employer they are nice, and as a lone parent they allow me to work flexibly around my childcare responsibility.

I take my lunch hour 3-4 daily and finish 4pm till 5pm at home regardless of if it is a WFH day or a office day.

My colleagues are also really understanding around my responsibilities as a lone parent and nobody says anything. But then again nobody needs to "pick up the slack" for me as, my workload is my own.

So I think overall whilst there has been no major cost of living help, they actually help me a lot generally in life.

Pickle1512 · 03/10/2022 22:32

£300 supermarket vouchers for all employees. 150 people in the company and it’s won awards for well being

SwanBuster · 03/10/2022 22:33

SofiaSoFar · 03/10/2022 22:26

...because they know full well I’m worth 10x what I’m paid. Simple as that.

And modest, too.

😂👍

but - self belief and concentrating on offering actual value does go a long way to getting at least somewhere (even if it’s just a 10th!) closer to what you are worth.

There is no point in being shy about it, which is why hearing ‘I’m just glad they pay me’ type comments infuriates me.

it’s a business transaction. If someone wants my time and skills they have to pay me. And if the cost of living goes up, they have to pay me more.

DeathWinsAGolfish · 03/10/2022 22:34

NHS - Sent out a list of nearby food banks.

daveisnotawave · 03/10/2022 22:36

One off payment of £1000

Free soft drinks at work, coke, sprite etc. obviously free fresh water and coffee/tea

Free soups and bread in the kitchen for anyone who needs a lunch

Free fruit bowl

Free sanitary products in the ladies room

Snacks available every Thursday and Friday - crisps, chocolates in the staff kitchen to help yourself to

transformandriseup · 03/10/2022 22:36

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

Well there isn't, posters are just reporting on what they have been given which for most is far less than 10 percent if anything at all.

Thriwit · 03/10/2022 22:36

We had a 3% payrise in April, but they restructured our bonus scheme so that the site’s targets are now practically impossible to meet. 🙃
So we got 3% on our salaries, but lost a 5% bonus. We’ve lost a lot of staff this year.

goldfinchonthelawn · 03/10/2022 22:37

I'm self-employed and raised my fees by 10%. No one has complained so far.

IfIGoThereWillBeTrouble · 03/10/2022 22:37

Main job is public sector, so nothing (as expected).
Second job is minimum wage which went up by 59p ph in April to £8.50.

Whatthebarnacles · 03/10/2022 22:39

Nothing. No payrise again as well, never mind a typical yearly inflation one. 3rd year on the bounce now. It's becoming untenable.

sweetkitty · 03/10/2022 22:40

Teacher in Scotland

via the unions a 5% pay increase has been rejected and we are being balloted for strike action. I believe other council staff have voted to accept a 5% increase now but our staff are not happy with this, most are low paid part time and have worked out it will be about an extra £50 a week

SwanBuster · 03/10/2022 22:41

goldfinchonthelawn · 03/10/2022 22:37

I'm self-employed and raised my fees by 10%. No one has complained so far.

Yep. And if they did complain, you should tell them to piss off.

I’m PAYE and employed, but I do believe that even in that situation people should think and act like you 👍

Its the same thing - we are all trading our time and skills for money.

Bigbadfish · 03/10/2022 22:41

Stonegate have demanded more work, more profits with less staff...

They're really great like that.

PerditaNitt · 03/10/2022 22:41

FTSE100 financial services firm with 5k+ employees. Offered all staff (excluding senior levels) £1k after tax one-off payment and rolled out free lunches across all sites. We employ a lot of part time staff in our customer operations teams, so it was nice to see that the £1k was not pro-rata’d down for them. No across the board pay rises, to date. Consider myself very lucky - this thread is a timely reminder that I should try to pay some of it forward.

Babyroobs · 03/10/2022 22:44

Nothing and I didn't expect anything either. My ds is an apprentice and has been given a £500 cost of living payment by his employer.

00kitty · 03/10/2022 22:45

Offered to pay us our well overdue (April) pay rise (below inflation) which the amount has not been agreed on yet (a minimum amount has been agreed) until all the unions decide whether to accept or reject the offer.
For background our rises are always at least 6 months late and then backdated, last year we got a whopping 1.25% and nothing the 4 years before

they also send emails on turning down your heating etc and where the food bank is etc