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?

I moved jobs in January and negotiated myself a 20% pay rise then but the company gave everybody a 5% pay rise on their basic salary which is not a lot really.

£1500 bonus in last wage, same again in March, for all employees.
Fixed rate til may, so putting in savings

Gave us all £350 one off cost of living payment
Around 5000 staff

Same here. We've lost billions so not expecting a pay rise next year (they usually happen in January) either although things are starting to slowly get back to normal.

Gave all staff £1000 (pro rata for part time). Large university.

Work for a large university. 3% pay rise in August, more for lower paid staff. One-off payment ranging from £400 to £700 depending on what you earn (lower paid get the highest amount). Feel very lucky.

We got an email about “warm banks” on Friday. Payrise of £1,000p/a in august which was backdated because it had taken loads of strike days to get anything, so it was cancelled out by those days of lost income (for union members).

Nothing. De Nada.

Not even had pay rise due in April as still being negotiated with union.

nothing directly for cost of living dh getting a 4% pay rise from next year

I work for a charity and we’re all getting £1k cost of living payment regardless of hours/salary. Seems v generous. And 2% pay rise.

What a bizarre concept. What employers do is employ you in return for a salary.

Some of you have incredible sounding employers!

An under the rate of inflation pay rise for the nth year running and <checks notes> a workshop on how to budget effectively.

£2400 for all staff earning less than 80k per year.
in addition to usual pay rise/ bonus.
Finance industry, 2000 employees (about 2X 3rds will get this)

I work for a company in Hong Kong, but get paid in UKP. The boss has said anyone can change the currency they are paid in if it helps.

I don't understand this sort of thing so should find out.

To be honest, you're lucky to have a job , in this climate.

Whatever your private increased costs are , they'll be much higher for your employer.

Below inflation pay rise. Staff on under £35k get £1200. Everyone above that is alright apparently. The company made £1.6bn in profit last year and to give the £1200 to all staff would cost it an extra £10m or so.

Civil servant, 2% rise🙄

Nothing yet, our salary increases only happen in April but I do expect a decent increase in April. We got two weeks extra pay back in March 2020 for example, so they do look after us.

DP got a 10% raise recently specifically because of the rising cost of living; it absolutely happens.

It’s not clear what side of the argument you are on here. Your statement is correct, of course.

If you are on the ‘you should be grateful for thruppence’ side, then the counter is we work in return for that salary. If that salary no longer meets expectations - for reasons such as:

• the market rate for jobs in that sector has changed

• the employees relevant skill set / experience has increased

• the currency has been devalued (pertinent right now) /inflation is running hot.

we are also fully entitled to demand the rate of compensation increases.

my current situation ticks 3 out of 3 of the above. My employer can either pay it, or I go elsewhere. I’m risking giving them until January to sort it. If nothing happens, and the market changes, then I re-evaluate my options. This includes taking a pay rise myself by reducing the amount of hours I spend working. It’s only fair, this is business.

Nothing at all.
I haven’t even been given a specified ‘golden handshake’ bonus that is written in my contract. I was supposed to get it in July.

NHS trust- all band 3 and below employs receive one off payment of £250. Maintained that no employees regardless of band need to pay for trust parking indefinitely.

Oh my god. Thats exactly how employers want you to think, that ‘you’re lucky’.

How gaslit is a society that thinks like this?!

The employer / employee relationship works both ways. Have a backbone!

i live in cambridge and work in london. My employer paid half of my ticket fee every month. My monthly ticket is £500 so my employer pay £250 every month.

NHS employee, nothing at all to help. Don’t even pay for our teabags/ coffee for our tea break 🙃 not to mention the stress involved in the role and staffing issues throughout.
my DP works for a small/medium local company and has had nothing either. One of the directors asked him last week if his bills had gone up.. hasn’t everyone’s? 🤦🏼‍♀️ But no extras or pay rise.

I’m not sure how people are meant to keep up with costs this year. It getting scary and luckily we have some savings to get us through for a little while but still can’t help but feel robbed that we have to use this for bills. It’s a first world problem for sure but makes me mad that those at the top still get to swan about on their holidays and their shopping trips while the rest of us struggle and sacrifice. It’s a sad time and I know we’re one of the fortunate ones as we have secure jobs and a little kept aside but it still feels dreadful!

Ours has given £1500 to everyone on £50k or less. It’s in theory to be to help with cost of living but you can spend it on whatever you want to.