Salary INCREASE

hi,

What is you current role, salary, and benefits and how long have you been working on the same position within the same company.

Reg

Zaf

There is no way any of us can give you an answer to your question. Salary increases are completely at the disgression of the organization you work for. It highly depends on if you are in the private sector or work for a government or state agency, what you do in your job, your skills and skill level, the progress you have made over the last year, and many, many other factors.

I'm a state employee and my state is giving us a 3% salary increase in December. I could also receive an increase from my department based on performance, experience, etc, but this is not guarenteed and is not given to everyone. I know people in the private sector who's company gives them a much larger annual increase.

ive been with the same company for 1 year.. and there is an annual evaluation period where emploiyees expect a raise.  Im a junior oracle db admin, i also do web development in ASP, ASP.net and etc. So i am also the webmaster.

The company is a small software engineering company.

I just wanted to get an idea of what is the avg salary raise.. Should i expect 5% or 10 % ..

I would expect no more than 5%, but then again, I don't know anything about your company other than what you've just said and I don't know how much you are currently making and I nor anyone else here will be able to give you an exact estimate because we could all be wrong. But anything over 5% would seem like a very high increase to me especially for somone who has only been with the company for a year.

Talk to other employees at your company and see what percentage others have received in the past.

Ok thank you very much..

Yes, I've done some effeciency consulting and have come to the conclusion that 5% and under is a normal "cost of living" increase.  Anything above that would be merit-based.

I would agree that more than 5% could be seen as exessive unless they were paying you too little to begin with.  It is a good idea to check what people have received in the past.  Last year at our company the increases were from 0.5% to a max of 3.0% but the year before that it was 2% to 7%.  

yea... well that is good to know.. Thank you all for your feedback

Keep in mind that the corporate attitude has a lot to do with potential increases also.  Good company attitude usually means a better increase than one in a poor state.

I can tell you that in the U.S. with the sluggish economy my company has pt a cap on salary raises.  No more than 3% under any circumstances, and the departments are encouaged to keep the departmental average at or below 2.7%.

Suffice to say, now that the economy is getting better (and the cap has been renewed for another year) valuable employees are leaving here like rats leaving a sinking ship.

I become fully vested in my pension in about 6 months.  It won't be much, but it's enough to make me want to hold onto my job for just a little while longer.  

Try to come up with a standard inflation index or cost-of-living increase percentage figure.  If you are not getting at least that as a raise then as a rule of thumb you are losing.  In simplistic terms, if inflation is 3%, what you are paid with no raise is worth 3% less than last year.  Expecting a raise to stay even with inflation or even zero is reasonable if you are a substandard performer or punctuate questions the same way as statements.  But the best gauge is what other employees are getting by percentage increase.  That may be difficult to find out but you may at least want to ask what the average increase is.

...none.   You should pay them for keeping you.

I think 1 year with a company is too little to expect something at all. you need more time to prove your value to the company, and expect it to return something. Up to now, you just worked your way into the company, leaning the howto's and notto's. That costs a company also.  think about everything they give you as something extra, and be grateful !