Payscales and Promotions

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How many points on a payscale would you expect to move for an internal promotion?

The newer role has some line management responsibilities, greater responsibility for income, and more strategic support to the business.

Current role spans point 26-30, I am on point 30. New role spans 31-33.

It's usually a 10% pay increase....unless you're NHS!

That's interesting, as it stands each pay point is equivalent to a rise of around 3%

I would expect somewhere with banding like that to be only moved up one band, as crap as that is.

In private companies usually would say 10% like the pp.

I’d guess point 31 but if you had a lot of experience there’s a negotiation for the mid point of the band

Where there’s bandings like that I would expect to start on the bottom of the new band (so scale point 31) unless there’s a particular reason you can negotiate higher.

In most places you’d start at the bottom of the next scale, so point 31 on the basis that you’d move up as you gained experience.

Local government - this would be the answer. 31.

Civil service it's bottom of the new payscale or 10% increase on previous salary, whichever is higher

In local government, you'd move to point 31 and it'd be non-negotiable.

Are you in local government? Because if you are, and you start at point 31 before the end of March, you'd get a 6-month increment, and then reach point 33 (the top of your payscale) on 1st April 2025.

I would expect your employer to have a clear pay policy that sets out what happens on internal promotion. Check on your intranet or staff policies.

Hi everyone thanks for all the responses, I was hoping that it would be an increase of at least 2 pay points. I will definitely take a look to see if there is a policy on this.

I'm not in the civil service, I work in the private sector not for profit.

In my sector you'd move across on the same salary from top of current band to bottom of next one but the new band then goes up so you'd have 6-12 months on the same salary but then an increase every year for the next five years (in addition to any cost of living increase).

Our scales overlap so somebody recruited externally would actually spend a year earning less than someone at the top level of the lower grade!