Once you get to the top of your pay scale- whats the incentive?

[christywhisty]

I am the longest serving employee of the charity I work for, but I have always worked part time and partly from home, because of this they won't promote me.
I am now at the top of my pay scale and apparently last year I was put on the bottom rung of the next pay scale by mistake so my wage rise last year at 4.5% was too much so this year I only have .7% when everyone else is getting a minumum of 2.25% plus incremental increases.

As I am at the top of my payscale this means I am never going to get more than cost of living again, any extra effort I put in will not be rewarded.
Or have I got this wrong?

No that sounds right. I'm at the top of my payscale now and all I'll get along with my colleagues is the cost of living allowance.

We're going through single status just now, local council, and we may push for an evaluation once it's all gone through as we feel we should be on the next payscale. There just isn't any incentive to be there as the money isn't really going to get any better, they keep piling more work on us and none of the bigwigs really care as they all got a big payrise.

I sympathise. I'm also at the top of my scale.

However, my understanding is that your "incentive" is that you get paid more than your colleagues every year because of your greater experience until obviously they also get to the top of the scale but therefore are also experienced. The scale has a ceiling because that is the most that the job is considered to be worth. In my job staff with long service also get increased holiday allowance.

That doesn't sound fair that you won't be considered for promotion though. Have they justified their decision?

working isn't just about money for me, lots of other incentives such as

feeling valued
feeling respected
sense of self worth when the job goes well
challenge

If you are lacking in those areas too you probably won't feel motivated regardless of the money

I work p/t in education and am at the top of the scale and have been for ages! Unless I go for a different position - which I don't want - I will just continue to get the annual ( pretty small ) incremental increases. However, I really like my job and am quite well paid so that is enough for me.

There is a lot I like about the job but although in some ways I have been treated well, we have had a lot of change over in management in the last few years which had adversly affected me.
Last year worked my socks off covering two jobs for months because nobody would make the decision to replace someone who had left, I got an excellent annual review. I have taken on train fares in the last 2 years so I have effectively had a pay cut, especially as my fares went up 33% this year (£2.20 a day). So the fact I have only .7% is a bit of a kick in the teeth, the difference I get a month only cover less than a week of my extra fares.

Also because of a change in systems I now have to work on a daily basis with a dragon from hell and it is getting stressful Working partly from home I can't even escape it there.

Have been looking out for another job but it is difficulty finding one with the flexibility I need with 2 children.

donnie thats like me, it onlytakes 5 years to get to the top too so the majority of staff are on the top grade and would cost too much to give anyone the chance to move up.

Some of us don't even have pay scales. I do a job at a set rate and each year get a 3-5% inflation rise. Period.

Some of us don't even have pay scales. I do a job at a set rate and each year get a 3-5% inflation rise. Period.

we have pay scales, but moving up them is based on "affordability" at the time of the pay settlement and the company claims not to have been able to afford moving people up them for 5 years - so I'm stuck seeing people paid much more than me for doing the same job & I've no way of ever catching them up, now THAT is demoralising! I would LOVE to be at the top of my scale.....

I am top of my pay scale too, and to make matters worse if I moved to the same job at a different prison I would actually get paid less and have less holidays! So, I literally have no where to go in this field.