The annual "how big was your payrise" thread

[jontz01]

39% - taking me up from shit wage, to just less than sensible current market wage.
Back dated to January too.. I'd be well happy if the mrs hadn't already spent most of it

 

[Santino]

We're going to have to cut costs in our department. Either somebody goes or we all go to a 4-day week. I'm torn because I would be the last out the door, so I could stand my ground and carry on. But I really don't want to see anybody lose their job. And I was hoping to earn as much as possible for the next few years and then ease off, but on the other hand easing off is part of my life plan and is there ever a good time to take a 20% pay cut?

I might take the opportunity for the 4-day week and just make it work. Working 4:3 rather than 5:2 would certainly make a big difference I think.

If you went to a 4 day week, which one would you have off?

 

[internetstalker]

payrises have been frozen for a year


cunts

 

[kabbes]

If you went to a 4 day week, which one would you have off?

We're actually considering closing the whole department on a Friday. It seems easier to manage expectations that way -- people will simply know that we aren't around on a Friday.

That suits me as I'd choose Friday anyway, I think. I have a friend that has Wednesday off and he likes that because he's never working more than two days at a go (no more Monday morning blues!). But I would want to make the most of a three-day weekend.

 

[gentlegreen]

Our union got us “greater of 2.5% or RPI as at September 2008”. ... which was lucky for us, but less so for our employer as the RPI was 5 percent at the time ... so I have an extra £76.42 net per month to stick in my retirement fund .. plus an extra week's holiday.

Scarily that's not far off a week's state pension.

 

[Santino]

We're actually considering closing the whole department on a Friday. It seems easier to manage expectations that way -- people will simply know that we aren't around on a Friday.

That suits me as I'd choose Friday anyway, I think. I have a friend that has Wednesday off and he likes that because he's never working more than two days at a go (no more Monday morning blues!). But I would want to make the most of a three-day weekend.

I can see arguments for any of the days, except Thursday. That would be odd.

 

[kabbes]

My brother in law has Thursdays off, to play golf. Or is it Tuesdays? Anyway, one of those days.

 

[ivebeenhigh]

We all got zero %, which is nice in that it's everyone together suffering.

I got 5 extra days holiday and we are all finishing half an hour early Mon - Thurs so not all bad. Works out that I am working 7% less time for the same money.

More staff discount too, not that I ever use it...

 

[xes]

I got a bonus instead of a pay rise. 1500 quid

 

[Poi E]

I'm going to ask for more time off and a fancier title. Not much chance of anything else...

 

[Mrs Magpie]

My tax went up because I'm low-paid and don't qualify for any of the hastily introduced tax credits brought in for low-paid workers who got money snatched away by Alistair isn't my Darling

 

[marty21]

same money, different job, haven't been told about a pay rise in this job, and no idea if they got one or not in the previous one

 

[Structaural]

nuttin' - in fact on 3 month probation and took a 100 euro pay cut per month when I took the job 6 months ago (times were desparate, my previous company had collapsed).

Private work has dried up too, but that was not very lucrative, more for fun.

 

[MikeMcc]

We've been told that it will be about 1.8%, there were another 6 redundancies a couple of weeks ago too.

 

[obanite]

Sat our department down in a big room, told us all we're not getting anything. Told us that absolutely nobody in the company was getting one either.

Then a week later one of my mates says she got one

lol?

 

[Vintage Paw]

Don't know yet. Our year runs May-May. Probably nothing though. It's usually around 2-3%.

I did get a £10 bonus last month though.

 

[cliche guevara]

I ticked 'less than zero', when I meant zero. Our company doesn't do annual pay rises, the excuse being that they have performance related pay rises which you can achieve to increase your salary above the rate of inflation. That is, if the criteria weren't so rigid as to not actually let anyone pass, ever.

 

[mitochondria]

got 3.2% but I am on rather crap pay so complained and asked to be aligned with market value.