When is the best time to ask for a salary increase?...

It may sound like arrogant to demand. But I think we can still ask for increase to our bosses. Whatever the circumstances is, it would be depend on the basic needs we encounter in our day to day living. Presently, we have encountered a price hike due to economic crisis. If this will continue to rise, of course, there is in need for us to demand an increase to sustain our basic needs.

My husband will always check online about the salary of his job and if it states that it is with that bracket and he is not yet there, he will always voice out to his boss,as long as you know your accomplishments for the year, you will be confident always to ask for it and if they will refuse, they have valid reasons for doing so, the bottom line is at least you ask and know the reasons rather than being confused and disturbed thinking about it! Just try to do it, there is nothing wrong if he will not grant it at least he knows your need and who knows, he will work for that!

its just after 1 year from the earlier salary hike,. some companies hike the salary after 6 months also. it depends also on the policy the company have.it may be that the boss is like that, its your right to ask for hike.

i have not tried asking for an increase from my employer. luckily, i have employers who knows when to increase the salary of their employee. i think if you have the good performance and your boss is satisfied with you work, she won't get disappointed if you ask for an increase. just try your luck, ask it from her in the way that she won't get offended with you.

Yes as a matter of fact I did ask for a salary increase. I think the best time to ask for it is when something good has happen to him and he is nice. That way you will have more oportunity to get the salary increase. Imagine you work in a shoes store. In that day your selling lots of shoes. You can try asking for a salary increase and wait for luck to come. Don't forget that if in that day everything is going quite OK because your selling alot, the things can turn and the day will be bad because you ruined it by asking for a salary increase!

I haven't done it,but my boyfriend often asks his boss for the salary increase.My boyfriend is a designer.He often thinks his value should be paid more,then he often says to his boss directly.His boss says ok every time.I think his success of his salary increasing dues to the boss's recognization of his hard working. So you'd better make sure that your hard working has been saw by your boss and he recognize it.

My boss who is sitting in the next room says "you can always ask" "it doesn’t mean your going to get it but if you don't ask then your not going to get it" The business I work for is a small family owned company. I have been here since Aug 07 and although I haven't asked for a raise yet I am going to soon. Here is how I plan to put it... When I started here in Aug I took on the responsibilities of the last person with no training or job description. I have since cleaned up all the messes the last person left and have implemented many new and innovative ways to keep up with the demands of our customers. I bought the accounts receivable to the best it has ever been in just 16 weeks. We are current on every thing and have little debt because I have collected all the outstanding balances of our customers giving us the money to pay every thing on time and some things off. As we all know every thing is on the rise. And I have begun to see things are getting very tight on my salary. I have already calculated what I think I have worked hard for; a 3% increase in my salary is not only fair but deserved. Please take my request into consideration. I am going to do this in July. In hopes that in August I can ask for a weeks paid vacation a year. Which is not currently offered.

No, I have never asked my boss to have a salary increase. We hope our boss will be kind and consider it to have the salary increase by himself. We dare not to ask him about it. Nobody want to make him mad:) If he wants to pay more for us, it's no need to ask. Besides, it seems that he is fair in this aspect. He will have the same salary raise for everybody at the same time. I love China

Honestly, I really don't know. I've never kept a job long enough to know, well aside from my own job, that I work from hom. I've worked that almost a year and a half, but I'm my own boss. I wouldn't do it before six months though.

At my work every October we get a 20 cent raise and we still don't think that's enough for the work that we do. There's a top out amount where we can't get more than that. Coming up there was word around work saying that we are going on strike and fighting for a raise. They call me in because they are short staffed and I told them that I have no gas in my vehical and had to pay bills so I can't come in. I've done that more than once before so I'm sure it's being recorded in their books and I do that to make a point. It's not going to hurt my job or anything, but what I'm trying to tell them is that the prices for gas went up and obviously I'm not getting paid enough to get there otherwise what shifts I'm already scheduled for. I think your best bet is to approach your boss and just plain out tell her that you're having a hard time making ends meet and would like to know if you could get an increase in your wage.

I think companies should already have thought of increasing wages of their employees after seeing all these crisis coming. But they stay and try to be blind and deaf cause increasing wages would be a big factor for their companies profits. I don't know much about marketing or managing stuff, but I'm getting there, but I still really think that companies should take some consideration about their employees especially these days that things that we buy won't ever decreases its cost.

aseretdd, i never asked for salary increament. my company have a certain period to increase salary. our increament is based on performance. so, employee who get perfect performance will get high increament. bu to tell you the truth, i want have increament everyday.

Well, the salary increase is always an unconfortable topic to discuss, but this works with me once (a 19 years old rookie ask me for a salary increase), put in a balance your list of duties, the time that you take working on that per week and value yourself as employee, also helps to be sharp on your work, get in time and not be the first person to go home at the end of the day and a very important thing is to know the status of the company, if is increasing the productivity or if not, find the appropiate moment in bussiness speaking. Then ask your boss for a feedback. Schedule a meeting with him for a 1 on 1. Once there explain him the situation, you know if you really likes that job tell him why you think you deserve some motivation. Most of all bosses likes that employees come with ideas to improve the job. If this doesn´t work and you really are breaking an arm for the job is better that you start looking for a new one and if you are a hard worker that´s will not be a problem. To be honest its not easy. I´m 29 years old (I start working at 18 and takes me a lot of jobs and bosses to find a place that value me a pay me for it. GO FOR IT!!

It seems to be a great challenge. But you must consider how is your relationship with your boss. What about if she consider you as your son or grandson? Depending on that, you can decide how to tell her. But if you feel so afraid of that, maybe is better that you don't ask for the salary increase.

I have never asked for a pay increase. I'm only 25 so i don't think I'm in a position to do that yet. It is true that the cost of living is rising dramatically but at the same time, everyone has to deal with these issues, not just you. If you feel like you're exerting yourself at work and you are a good employee well I don't see why you shouldn't give it a try! Personally i'm too nervous to ask my boss for a raise but like I said, If I felt like I truly deserved it and was working harder than usual for the company, well I'd certainy consider asking for a raise. Let us know how you go!

You know, although I've had many jobs, I never have done that. It does sound like a confusing experience. Once I wasn't hired for a job because they said I didn't ask for enough money, though. I thought that was pretty odd. Most of the jobs I have ever held had fixed salaries, so there was no negotiating. I rather liked that. Good look and sorry I cannot help you at all on this one!

Hello aseretdd, Amazingly, I never asked for salary increment. Our salary review is in July every year but the company will only pay our new salary in March, next year and pays all the 7 months backdated salaries. I don't know whether I am lucky or not but I still feel my salary is far lower than my colleagues who have worked for the same period like me. After getting promoted last few months, I have been thinking to ask for special salary increment comes this July. I should get better as my responsibilities are greater and bigger than before.

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