What payrise are you getting / did you get this year ?

1.75%

Awful. Considering I haven't stopped working during the pandemic, if anything worked over and above for large parts. Myself and my Wife have cut back on so much since the beginning of March. Heating hasn't been on, our food budget is £45 a week which is largely pasta, or rice with a sauce and veg. We aren't missing payments or struggling to sort the mortgage but the weekly take-aways and beer after work have stopped.

Both of us are looking at work abroad because we're pig sick of this nation.
 
Matt said:
Honestly, I would just get in touch with a recruiter and see what they have, at least then you understand the market you are in and what you could be looking for. Then you can take it to your bosses. I imagine you have recruiters contacting you via email/LinkedIn fairly regularly? It is definitely worth a quick conversation with them, if you are open to other options.

Even though we got a good payrise, it didn't happen totally organically - someone had to go to the higher-ups and say that they are constantly getting contacted about jobs paying 40% more than what they earn at the moment, they don't want to leave but it's getting hard to ignore. From there they did a full review of the team. To their credit, they saw the situation and reacted to it in a positive way.
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Never been one to rock the boat but I think I need to on this occasion. I don't respond to recruiters but you're right it's constant connections through linkedin currently. I'll see what a few have to say.
 
Dybuk said:
Never been one to rock the boat but I think I need to on this occasion. I don't respond to recruiters but you're right it's constant connections through linkedin currently. I'll see what a few have to say.
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Totally agree with Matt here. I'm in a very similar industry (web development).
I was at a local company who started working remotely during the first lockdown.
I quickly realised I could do exactly the same thing for companies anywhere in the world.
Got recruited by a company in Australia about 18 months ago, doing a very similar job for 30% higher pay, and I've just had another significant rise in April too.

If you have the skill/experience to back yourself... Rock the boat.
 
Unravel_Morrison said:
I was actually thinking of this just now. I work in Twickenham and there's a lot of 'nice' cafes, bars and restaurants. Just walked down to the river and back and there's two places that should be making a killing today that are both closed due to staff shortages.
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It's crazy and we can't even blame it on the B word as there are schemes out there now for hospitality workers to be sponsored to enable them to work in hospitality.
The industry as a whole is on the edge of great change. Better working hours, better pay and more of a focus on employee well being, all three of which I've witnessed first hand aswell as been told from friends in the game.
 
I've actually been given a 12.5% pay cut, but that's due to one of my stupid bosses not realising what the Law is, in relation to a casual worker being paid extra for not having paid holidays. He seems to think that the requirement to pay me 12.5% above minimum wage is more of a discretionary award. I'll be brushing up my old trade union skills for a meeting with him in a few weeks. I actually hope he does stick to his guns, I haven't done an Employment Tribunal for a while and I'm quite looking forward to it
 
I negotiated myself a 45% increase in November as I had a good offer elsewhere. So I'm presuming I won't be getting any sort of pay rise this year, even if I ask for one!
 
We've given all of our staff a standard 6% and then they have all had their annual salary review as well on top of that. Some have come out with significantly more.
 
Ash88 said:
Totally agree with Matt here. I'm in a very similar industry (web development).
I was at a local company who started working remotely during the first lockdown.
I quickly realised I could do exactly the same thing for companies anywhere in the world.
Got recruited by a company in Australia about 18 months ago, doing a very similar job for 30% higher pay, and I've just had another significant rise in April too.

If you have the skill/experience to back yourself... Rock the boat.
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This, basically. Your example is quite extreme in that you're working for someone on the other side of the globe, but keeping it more local - you are now able to work almost fully remote (in a lot of cases, fully remote) for companies based in London and get paid London wages. It also creates demand locally as there are less and less people who are willing to work for "Teesside" wages in this industry, so it is becoming much harder to recruit locally.

I don't expect this will continue forever as people realise they can start paying somewhere in the middle and still attract talent from the north but for now I'd say fill your boots and rock the boat. It has been proven time and time again that it is the most efficient way to get a payrise. You have to be prepared to follow through though - i.e. leave if your current company don't play ball - so I'd weigh up what is important to you and what your current company are like to work for etc...

I read an article that listed some of the most in-demand professions and the top 3 were truck drivers, software developers, and nurses - got to take advantage whilst you can
 
0% this year. Getting 3% in December. Working in a school has had my wages frozen for all but one or two of the previous few years too.

The NI rise and VAT rise on my energy bill alone have already taken an extra £65 per month from me.
 
1% over the past 10 years as a government employee... In real terms a 40% paycut over that time frame. I do get an incremental increase each year but that is contractual and never paid on time.
 
Apparently 4% has been offered but it’s with the union who will ask for more. I suspect we might get 5%. Plus a 1k payment in July but that, whilst welcome, is also taxed. At the moment any extra is welcome.
 
Really interesting to see all these posts and the variances in the offering. Quite bards to draw a conclusion other than it’s pretty random I feel . I’m guessing we will be in the 5% ish range given we are one of the biggest employers in the local region but I’ll wait and see next month
 
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