To expect salary to have increased in 10 years?

[Topaz67]

If you were earning £14 per hour in 2014, what would you be expect to be earning now on the basis that you were in the same job?

I cant believe that I’m being paid the same as all my predecessors, back to when the post was created a decade ago. To be honest I think the job holder was overpaid in 2014 but I still feel that something is not quite right.

You are not being unreasonable! However I think a lot of jobs are like this. Mine is! Not that it is right when everything else has gone up so much!

Have you asked for a pay rise? Some employers do just offer them.

What's the job?

It should be done properly but we have some at work that were on a higher rate
new grades were brought in And the higher grade had a pay freeze till the others caught up

I'd benchmark your role against the same role in your industry, then tell your employers what salary you'd like and why.

I'd also consider looking for a new job.

YANBU but I agree with @NHStoPrivate that it's more relevant to compare to others doing the same job now (with your employer or a different one) rather than someone doing it 10 years ago. There may have been factors you're not aware of.

You’re not being unreasonable but in my industry salaries haven’t increased at all in the last 10 years. Being in the private sector, we’ve not even had a penny more despite inflation.

Same here - only had less than inflation rise that everyone else had.
Asked for a pay rise once and turned down flat. Really should have left after that but job is niche and no jobs available.
I'm part-time and a middle aged female.

No pay rise in 10 years is shocking though, it's a pay cut in real terms.

Depends if you’ve gone for promotions or taken on more responsibilities in that time? If it’s exactly the same then I’d still expect a rise since then but less. Maybe £18 an hour now.

Almost the same here, 2015 went from £7 per hour to £13 in a new job, still in same job 9 years later on £14. Not complaining g though as it's a ver flexible WFH job that will see me to retirement in 8 years and 10 months (not that I'm counting)

According to an inflation calculator, to keep pace you should be earning £18.41 an hour in 2024 - that's simply to stay level, not accounting for any rise that might be fair to take into consideration the experience you'll have built in that time.

I bet a lot of these companies not giving annual pay rises make more money every year 🧐.

As the living wage seems to be increasing by a £1 each year (rightly so) by this time next year you’ll be earning the same as someone who has no experience.

This is where I will be by this time next year if I don’t quit beforehand. Experience doesn’t seem to count for much in some positions.

Why have you strayed so long in the same job but without a pay rise?

leading experts in careers recommend either going for a promotion or looking elsewhere. I’ve moved around every 4 years or taken promotion to ensure that I don’t have that situation.

Thanks for all your helpful response. I have only been there 10 months and I admit I moved because my previous employer refused me a pay rise after 4 years because “one of my colleagues was overpaid”! It’s a charity and I feel I have taken on more responsibility then previous job holders.

Yes I may as well go and work in a shop or wfh call centre as will nearly be on the living wage.

It doesn't surprise me that is a charity...

I have worked for charities for quite a few years. The one I am right now has the worse staff turnover I have ever seen and poor pay and conditions are the main reasons.

Like you I have taken more responsibilities than what I was hired to do. I am job-hunting right now because of the pay and lack of progression (I asked them to change my job title to reflect the true extent of what I do and got a lukewarm response which really annoyed me).

Many charities just use the fact that staff are usually really committed and want to make a difference to treat them poorly while their CEOs and directors are on high wages.

Move on to another role if you are not valued in the current one.

There’s a calculator

Does anyone in the UK get pay rises any more? One of my friends had been in a job 15 years and only got a pay rise last year when her pay would otherwise have hit NMW!
And at that point, they seriously considered sacking her and giving the job to a 21 year old so that the pay didn't have to increase.

All part of capitalism and the rich continuing to increase how much they cream off the top. The average salary compared to COL is appalling in the UK. Yet big business makes record profits. It’s disgusting. The government is too weak to do anything about it.

I worked in FE/HE and didn’t get a payrise in ten years. In my HE role my pay actually went down to the same rate it was in 2000. Currently self employed in unskilled roles and earning more than I was in FE.

Depends on the job. I got pay rise every year. In 2014 I think i got £32k now £82k. I dont know how much an hour. Meanwhile my wife works for nhs and got so little pay rises.

I worked in a place for 15 years and in that time had a pay rise of 2 quid ph. Some on my team got less for same work so couldn't even complain. Since I left they now pay London living wage as minimum so I guess I'd be on two quid above that? It's still fuck all.

I’ve had annual raises of around between 3-4% and one year a 10% increase because of compression in the last 10 years. Public company/private sector/US.