What is a fair annual raise?

[MartinGB]

What do you think is a fair annual raise?

 

[WAslayer]

Other: minimum inflation matched increase with higher percentages being based purely on performance..

 

[saor]

 

[Herr der Verboten]

What do you think is a fair annual raise?

unions: sky is the limit; well whatever the taxpayer can cough up for us.

 

[3WA]

unions: sky is the limit; well whatever the taxpayer can cough up for us.

Unions: our increase should be based on how much we were able to up our cost of living

I bought a bigger house so I need a bigger raise

 

[*SynergyX*]

3% because that all the company can afford...we all know the spiel

 

[Vorastra]

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[Quicks]

Well depends private or government. If government minimum is 15%

 

[Cius]

Depends on many factors including by not limited to:
Where you are in your salary band
Your performance for the year
If the company can even afford it
If you completed major development or qualifications during the year
And so on and so forth.

Ideally at least inflation as a general rule, however these days published inflation these days is massively under middle class inflation from my experience.

 

[noxibox]

Matching inflation isn't a raise. If someone is doing their job then an inflationary adjustment is the bare minimum. Anything less is actually a pay cut. Now maybe your employer really can't afford it, but at the very least they shouldn't pretend they aren't reducing your pay.

 

[noxibox]

unions: sky is the limit; well whatever the taxpayer can cough up for us.

It's the unions' job to push for as much as possible. That's just capitalism.

 

[AstroTurf]

Matching inflation isn't a raise. If someone is doing their job then an inflationary adjustment is the bare minimum. Anything less is actually a pay cut. Now maybe your employer really can't afford it, but at the very least they shouldn't pretend they aren't reducing your pay.

Exactly

 

[3WA]

Matching inflation isn't a raise. If someone is doing their job then an inflationary adjustment is the bare minimum

But why are we entitled to raises each year? If we do the same work each year, surely we should just get inflation adjustments?

 

[Herr der Verboten]

It's the unions' job to push for as much as possible. That's just capitalism.

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[konfab]

At a minimum, it should be based on the average medical aid price increase IMO. That is a much more reasonable approximation of inflation than CPI. Elsewise you seriously run the risk of losing employees.

 

[konfab]

But why are we entitled to raises each year? If we do the same work each year, surely we should just get inflation adjustments?

Every year you work, you get another years worth of experience in the direction that the company wants you to, therefore you become more valuable.

 

[Neuk_]

Matching inflation isn't a raise. If someone is doing their job then an inflationary adjustment is the bare minimum. Anything less is actually a pay cut. Now maybe your employer really can't afford it, but at the very least they shouldn't pretend they aren't reducing your pay.

This, I remind my manager every year that I haven't received a 'raise' in years.

 

[3WA]

Every year you work, you get another years worth of experience in the direction that the company wants you to, therefore you become more valuable.

In practice, does everyone in your workplace create more value year on year?

 

[Sideshow Bob]

In practice, does everyone in your workplace create more value year on year?

In practice, the more you stay in same company, the more they know that you are not going anywhere really. It reduces your chances of getting decent raise.

 

[Cactus]

One of my friends just got a 35% increase at his company Not in ICT field and not a promotion. Just because he worked really hard this past year.