How do you ask for a raise?

You could approach them in several ways. If they are giving cost of living raises I would ask when the next one would be. If they don't I would be looking else where for work because obviously the company you work for doesn't care much if any for their employees. Or I would point blank ask them in all seriously tell me what I need to do to get a raise. See what they say. If you do a decent days work and have been there a while I would think you should be getting raises annually. If not i might have another option available and ask for a raise, if you don't get it give your two weeks notice and go else where. Ofcourse this new place should be researched. Maybe someone you know works there, etc. I would never leave one he*ll hole to just go to another one.

I think you will have to justify the salary that you get and show how exactly you deserves more. For example, if your work saves valuable time to the company, allowing more productivity and more income to the company, then, you are supposed to get paid accordingly. If your contribution cannot be valued with money, it will be hard for the manager to calculate why and how much more to pay you. You need to quantify you contribution into money income to the company. It is hard to do and requires information that is maybe not accessible. For example, if you do some physical work and the company can't function without it, they need to pay you for it. If you found a way to increase your productivity and it makes the company more productive, it will get more income and you will be able to tell the manager what you can offer now and how it improves the total income. You need to know how the money flows and where it comes from. How business works.

Hello jvincent. I have been working in the same school for sixteen years and during these years I have asked for a raise for about four times. The first time it was a double raise, but later it was much less than the first time. The last time I asked for a raise was January this month. It was the least raise I have ever got, but I am still happy for it. Our boss never says that he will give us a raise unless we ask for it, which is not satisfactory to us. Take care.

I will go right up to the boss and ask for a raise politely, after trying the human resources department without any positive result or even reply after week. If your company doesn't has any employees pay raise policy and your supervisor doesn't recognized your hard work, then you need to take some personal action for the sake of your own self. If you are fired for asking politely to your boss, looking for it from the bright side, it is still better for you than continue working for an underpaid salary and unappreciative company. At least, you are doing somethings good for yourself and your family this time, not just the company you work for.

Just be assertive and ask for a raise. I know people who just ask for raises even though they dont deserve it. Sometimes they get allowed, sometimes they don't but its better to ask than to not have tried asking at all.

talking to your boss for a raise can be a risk the one is getting fired and the other one is getting a raise, but for sure they will ignore you thinking they are a lot of person that looking for a job and if you are not happy to what the company paid you you go and look for another job for a good payment that you are looking for and beside they can replace your place and no time, right? but as far as i know if your company have union you before join them as i was thinking that was a good opportunity to have a raise without firing you..

I will wait for a day when my boss has some free time on hand while in the office to ask for a raise politely, i will go right in front of him and tell him i deserve a raise if the company doesn't has any policy on pay raise and your supervisor doesn't recognize your contribution. The worst it can ever happen to you is getting fire from asking politely, if it have come to this stage, don't feel despair, looking at it from the bright side, it is still better than working with an underpaid salary and unappreciated company.

I know that there are a lot of people that might not agree with me that this would be the best way to do it, but in my working experiences, I've found that the best way for me to ask for a raise is to be very direct about it. I mean when I've started to feel like I'm being under paid, I will go directly to my boss and I will point out that I'm fulfilling all of my job requirements and will also point out that I'm willing to take on additional projects, but I would like to have a raise because I feel like I'm being underpaid with the work that I've been doing for the company.

Do you deserve a raise in your company/ when was the last time you has a salary increment and by how much? how valuable are you or your job position in your company? Are you expendable? Or is your work productivity highly valued and you form a key component in the organizational stucture of your co. and your contribution has high value , perhaps due directly to your job performance, your company had a profitable venture that you can directly claim credit for because it is in relations to your effort. Above are the questions i will first ask myself and if i feel that i can answer the above positively or can justify my reasoning to ask for a raise. Then i will present the above questions after i figure out to convert the questions into valid justifications on why i think i deserve a raise and present my case to HR or the boss

I have never asked for a raise at any job I have had. I could see r asking for one if other co-workers were given a raise and I was bypassed. That certainly would not be fair. I feel that if you truly earned a raise, the other employer would be willing to see that.

Raising in salary is depends on terms and condition of agreement with your employer and your performance. If you deserve increment that remind your employer for it.

actually before we ask to raise our salary me and all worker should talk first and we created an email that we were asking for a raise in our salary base in our tenure and responsibility here in the office.and of course our reason should valid.

When I worked we got an evaluation every year. After the evaluation your raise was according to that. I always got at least a 5% raise. Once I got a 7% raise. I've never had to ask for one. I guess if you aren't getting raises, the best thing to do is out it in writing. You will have to say why you think you deserve one and what kind of raise you think is fair. The boss might give you your raise if you do it professionally and assertively.

Well, we have the same scenario right now. We are not being paid for the right salary for us. Our agency triggered and advised us to write a letter to the higher boss and ask to increase our salary since we are in the company for the very long period of time. We attached there in the letter the span of years we are working in the company, the multitasking jobs we are doing and only need to complete the signature of our co employee and will give it to the boss.Hope it will turn out well.

Vincent, usually i don't ask for a raise. Usually, i prefer to do my job well and wait patiencely for the raise. If the raise is not as good as i expected, then I would go in search for another better offer. So far, in my working years, i haven't tried asking any of my boss for a raise. Because i feel i don't have the power to request for a raise. It is solely depending on the boss decision. Happy weekend....

I really have not work in an office that long, but I guess, the best way is to ask for a re-evaluation of our performance so that they would know if the service that you provide them still coincides with the amount that you get ever month as well as the number of years of service that you have given to the company.

Hi jvincent! One of the best way is to send a letter requesting for a salary increase directly to the person in-charge or to the manager. Stating therein the reason/s for such request. Have great day!

Hi friend, we all are working hard for our income, if the company is not paying properly, surely we will be uncomfortable and searching for another good company. It is hard to ask our boss to raise our salary, we must prove our real talent in our job and made him to get impressed with our work, automatically he will raise our income for our hard work. If still the boss don't give importance to our work and don't recognize our talents, better to find another company which values our work and talents and give our best in our work

There must be somewhere in your contract that states about having an increase in your salary. I my case, our company will give a raise if its employees exceeded the expected passing performance rate. If its stated in your contract and they are not doing it then I guess you have to bring it to authorities.

Asking for a raise is a case to case basis. It is not that easy to ask for a raise because you do not know for sure how the bosses take it. You are also quite scared that you be rejected. In my case, I work in a government office so it is not that easy to ask for a raise. You just wait and see when it will be given to you. It does not matter whether you work hard or not.