How to request a pay raise?

Hi, Tenrajj, Of course one should stand up for themselves. On the positive side, the person can get the raise he wants and be happy. On the negative side, the person can get axed on a very short notice and end up crying. This is very true in the private sector, when the companies do not even show a proper reason to fire someone. Where it is this tough to just keep your job, by doing your work, I hardly doubt if someone would really want to stand up for a little raise. There is smart and careful and then there is just plain stupid and brave.

I would just like to get paid period for my research. I am working an unpaid internship with a Pasadena biotech company and a biology lab on campus. I just hope I can get good references from this and perhaps my name in a reputable journal. I want to be published so bad and research has not always gone well, but this summer my hypothesis has so far proven to be correct! Now need more data. I guess I can get paid once I graduate.

As the costs of everything raises there should be a raise in the employee payroll.When the wages or salaries are increased then automatically the other things are also becoming costlier.However if a worker does more than the work he shold do or is really a desrvving candidate then he can ask for his raise of pay.

hi,tenrajj,nice to see you again,i find that your post is always interesting and meaningful. my company is a enterprise called state owned in china not belong to individual, and employees' payment has a special system. the financail department gives employee salary according to the real working quantities except the system which may contain the degree or length of service something like that. what i am trying to express is requesting a pay raise is useless in my company especially stated owned even you deserve it. that's the real condition.

Hi tenrajj :) Of course, employees should be paid higher as time goes by. Our "talent fees" have higher value as you stay longer with an employer. It will give you more work experience thus having appropriate higher fee. On the other hand, one must prove first that he/she deserves that raise. I don't think any employer will raise you up if you have not learned or improved since you started the job. We, employees, should stand for ourselves and have the courage to ask for a raise only if we think we deserve it. If we thin we deserve it, then we should defend it. Any concerns can be done in a nice conversation. So, just be polite and honest at the same time and your employer will most likely grant your request. :)