Discussion People with jobs, I have a question

[Baphomet]

How usually are you supposed a raise at your job? Yearly? Every few years? I've always wondered how it would work in a normal system.

 

[Catsylvania]

How usually are you supposed a raise at your job? Yearly? Every few years? I've always wondered how it would work in a normal system.

Depends on the company. Personally, I get a yearly review and as long as I did my job well, I get a “merit raise”. It has never kept up with inflation so I’m perpetually losing spending power. My review this year was eight months late and I got a 4% increase, up from 3% last year.

Sometimes, upper management here will throw people a bone and give them a slight title change which typically comes with a more substantial salary increase separate from the one that accompanies the yearly review. Anecdotally, I’ll have been in IT for seven years next month so I’m really hoping they tack a “II” to the end of my current title at some point and give me that sweet, sweet 10% raise.

 

[ermitron2]

Yup, in my previous company I think I got 3 raises during 10 years (the second one was a substantial one though) so it varies

 

[rêverie]

i would say in a company that is good to their employees, at least every year. at my old job (a company i did not like) i actually got two pretty substantial raises in the 2 years i was there, though the raises were from shitty pay to slightly less shitty pay... so...

 

[Mbolibombo]

Yearly - the beauty of living in a country with very very strong unions - with the occasional additional increase when my managers realize I do so much more shit than they think I do. But those additional increases are going to be harder going forward unless I change title or job.

 

[crazybenjamin]

I've been at my current job for a year and a half, and I've received one raise in that time frame. But right now my bigger concern is how the company is planning to change around the shift timings for the job.

 

[RingoGaSuki]

Yearly. It never keeps up with inflation though - my raise this year was 3.5%, next year is scheduled to be 6% but inflation was 7.5% this year so I'm still behind. Only way to get an actual raise is to change jobs, I've changed twice in the past year and gotten raises of 10% and 15%.. Then my old places go on about retention rates being bad, like gee I wonder why?

 

[grobla123]

Outside of union or great ea. In my experience never. You get raises by job hopping every 2 to 4 years.

 

[Aurelia]

I work in the public sector with a union, so my raises are annual and negotiated in 3 year spurts (minus COVID). Of course, our management drags their feet and it's really more like 3.5 years and we get a retroactive check to cover the pay raise.

We negotiated 14% over the past 3 years (don't remember the breakdown) so now we are on par with the units around us.

But my pay scale ends in 3 years so that's going to suck. We are hoping to negotiate better longevity bonuses (ideally % based).

 

[7threst]

Yearly. Thanks unions!

 

[Zeal543]

How usually are you supposed a raise at your job? Yearly? Every few years? I've always wondered how it would work in a normal system.

My jobs have a yearly raise. You can negotiate pay raises but you should have a good reason for doing so (i.e. another job offer)

 

[Armoured_Bear]

I live in Switzerland so different from the USA but it's normal to have a yearly increase which should at least match inflation and is negotiated by the union, could be additional raise at manager's discretion.
Unfortunately I have a "management" type contract which isn't covered by the union so I I've had less than 1% increase in 4 years (3x0%) which I'm quite pissed off with.

 

[Síriocaz]

Every time they raise the minimum wage, which has been happening very frequently in Mexico as of late.

 

[Deleted member 645]

I get a yearly raise every January