Tightening Finances this year. Wage increases who got one.

misskool

no pay rise.

but increases in NI means I get less every month. It's an inadvertent pay cut for me. Thank you George

hillcats

5.2% is guaranteed from 1st Jan.
Not however seen a single penny of it yet, back pay due soon...

lostinrates

quantic wrote: »

This is a subject which really frustrates me, our company has not given anyone a cost of living increase for 6 years, even though they have done better each year then ever before. This year we where told due to rough economic times we would not be receiving one even though we had the best year in our companies history. I don't mind not receiving an increase if its for the best - longer term, but I feel like mine and other companies are using this recession as an excuse to take the michael with employee's.

This is a little like my husband's employers. However, when others in his industry were laying off his employers kept people on, doing pro bono work till things picked up. Staff were consulted and it was agreed back then that suspending bonuses and stopping increases to the band payments was preferable to redundancies in the UK office. However, the office remained in profit despite cut work loads and the pay band amounts have remained as they were in...what 2007? HOWEVER, people do still continue to progress through the bands each year (e.g. DH got an 8% increase this year) and small bonuses were quickly reintroduced. (these are applied evenly across the office, according to pay band but not individual performance related ). A lot of DH's peers are complaining about the bands not increasing to reflect cost of living increases, and DH like I would, pretty much tells them to be grateful they were employed doing something useful when they could have been on their ears. (none of them are anywhere near a bread line.)

quantic

Bands? HA. The guy I sit next to has had a 4% pay increase in 9 years. The only thing that increases here is our profits.

Brallaqueen

0.5 % increase for the past two years running (better than a kick in the teeth, but only just). I also went up the payscale increment at work this month (approx £30 a month)

I'm very grateful for my lodger these days.

new_home_owner_3

were i work we got a 5 percent rise last november and we also get inflation plus 0.5 percent this november.

nearlyrich

I got a 10% plus pay review backdated from January and a one off bonus and my quartely bonus for a target that I wasn't expecting to hit so all in all quite a good result.

Sapphire

No pay rises for me for the last four years – but then book publishing is not having a good time at the moment overall. However, I now have a company pension, to which the company contributes, which counts as a bit of a pay rise.

auroan

misskool wrote: »

no pay rise.

but increases in NI means I get less every month. It's an inadvertent pay cut for me. Thank you George

Blaim the idots brown and darling for that one not osborne

Back OT I got 5.6%

ultrawomble

0.4% (work in HE) - which translates to an extra £1/month in the pocket after the recent changes to NI and income tax.