How to ask for a pay rise
In this posting from the LinkedIn Agency Influencer program, Alex Delehunt advises you to play your cards carefully when entering into the most treacherous of workplace conversations
You’ve been kicking goals at your job and you know that your colleague in the exact same role is earning $5,000 more than you. Chances are your manager is never going to ask, “Do you want a pay rise?”
That’s why you need to navigate this tricky (and sometimes awkward) conversation with your boss yourself. Here are some tips for asking for more moolah:
1. Before you do anything, understand your company’s procedure on pay rises
You may need to consult your employee handbook or policy guide (or be really nice to your HR Manager) to get a thorough understanding of exactly what the guidelines around raises are. Do these only happen at particular times of the year? Do you need to have been with the company for a certain period?
Of course if you really do have an offer with company XYZ, then telling your boss about it is actually a sign of loyalty.
This is the “jump between ladders” approach to a career that in my experience actually works. If your current company won’t let you move up the next rung, just jump sideways and up onto a neighbouring ladder.
That would be my main tip for getting a pay rise – apply for better positions in other organisations and once you’ve won them – ask your boss to match it and follow through on leaving if they don’t.
Here’s my good deed of the day for all of you dear readers.
She starts the article and its premise with:
“You’ve been kicking goals at your job and you know that your colleague in the exact same role is earning $5,000 more than you.”
Then at the end of the article…..
“You heard that your colleague was on $5,000 more than you and they’re in the exact same job so therefore you deserve the same right? Wrong! Never compare yourself to others.”
Then truly ends with:
“…have a grown up conversation and use this feedback as a gift.”
“You never know until you ask!”
Basically, you are never getting that payrise.