Asking for a Raise (employee, percentage, job, salary)
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Hello Guys - My employeer has been very generous over the past 2 years. I have been working at this place since 2008. In 2009, they gave me a raise of 15%, the following year 9% (last year). Both the times, without me asking.
However, this year my situation has gone bad a little, and was planning on asking on raise of 10-15% or should I just wait for them to do the Appraisal and come up with a number?
If the past raises came about without you asking, I doubt you have to worry about asking this year, regardless of the amount you think is appropriate.If by 'gone bad' you mean your work product has suffered for some reason or another, expecting 10% might be a tad unreasonable.
Actually on second thought, I can't imagine any situation that has 'gone bad' in which the expectation of 10-15% would be reasonable.
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I wouldn't push it. Those are great raises. I work for a public agency with elected commission decisions on maximum raises. I have been there 2 years and gotten two raises at the maximum, but they were only 4.5%, and I also got a promotion but that was only 6% with much more responsibility. Yours of 15% and 9% seem very generous in these
times.
If you're going to ask for a 10-15% raise, you'd better have some strong, compelling negotiation leverage - such as being able to point to indispensable top-level value you added or (better yet) the threat of another job offer. Just asking because you'd like more cash and received a raise in the past will make you look like a goober.
Don't forget there are OTHER forms of compenstation that are negotiable that don't involve cash. You can ask for more vacation days or comp days. Those don't cost anything to the employer.
Be mindful that sometimes the first raise (maybe the first two) have a combination of a merit/cost-of-living increase but sometimes they may do an "equity increase." If they never explained why you were getting 15 and 9%, it is possible that the first raise was one of:
1) This employee is real good, let's increase the pay by a lot to make them think that it will be like this every year
-or-
2) We hired this individual at too low of a salary for their skillset. We will do the right thing and increase their pay (this also lowers the chance of the employee bailing when they realize they were paid poorly to start) - Yes, this actually does happen.
When you get your next performance evaluation, if it is as stellar or more than the last but the percentage raise (and bottom line raise figure) is less than the previous year, just ask them flat-out "why?"
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