Some quick tips:
1) Do your homework. Understand where your current pay compares to the salary ranges for your title and region. Salary.com can provide that information.
2) Quantify your individual and team job performance in regards to the company goals. Illustrate how much money your work saved the company, or created for the company. Show tangible results in regards to increase customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, and customer referrals.
3) Understand the responsibilities of your grade and pay level. Understand the responsibilities of the next level. Highlight as many responsibilities that you accomplish from the higher pay-grade or band level. Employers expect their employees to do excellent work in their assigned pay-grade and responsibilities. By doing what they expect – gives you a Meet Expectations performance grade. By doing things below your pay-grade (even though those items are assigned to you and no one else will do them) gets you a Performing Below Expectations.
By doing things above your pay-grade gets Exceeds Expectations and that raise.
- What’s the best time to ask for a raise? –
- What materials should you have prepared when asking for a raise? –
- What’s the best way to ask for a raise?
- What’s a good way to phrase your request for a pay raise?
- How can you figure out the right range, figure or percent to ask for? What’s too high? What’s too low?