Performance related pay increase

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Tl dr: do the companies you work in or have worked in recently have performance related pay linked to bonuses or base pay.

I work in Higher education and they have recently started performance related pay (rather than annual increments in a band). I have only seen this type of performance related pay (grading, calibration meetings, normal distribution) in companies where it is related to bonuses but not basic pay (we do not have bonuses). I wanted to find out if anyone else works somewhere that has this structure.

I work for a Local Authority and we have performance related increments. If you do your work well, you don't get one - you have to be "exceptional". So you could be in a job for 5 years and not see a salary increase apart from the annual "inflationary" rise which last year was 2.2% in my case so nothing like inflation.

I had a performance related pay award this year, so went up one increment. I doubt I'll get one next year as there seems to be an unwritten rule tgat you can't get one two years running.

It's a shit system as it seems to depend on whether your manager likes you.

Yes. Pay rise based on performance review. I didn't think it was uncommon.

Yes the pay rise based on performance review is expected. I am asking more about the way performance is reviewed. Is it just your manager grading you or is the grading carried out with calibration exercises and then having all staff on a bell curve.

Calibration yes, bell curve no. Although ultimately it is still a subjective process.