These reasons for wanting a raise, but the boss doesn't accept it
What do you want to say to your boss? Most people should cry from the heart: I want a raise! However, the salary is not "you can increase it if you want". Many people mustered up the courage to say the reason for the increase, but were choked by the boss's understatement.
Worry-free Elite.com conducted a survey among nearly 100 netizens. The data shows that 70% of netizens believe that the most unreliable reason for a salary increase is "everyone else has more than me", followed by "if I don't get a salary increase, I will quit my job". Even if you really think this way in your heart, you can't express it in such a naked way. In fact, the employees who are worthy of the boss's investment are nothing more than those who can produce results. No matter how high-sounding the reasons are, they must ultimately be implemented into "performance". There is no sure-fire reason for a pay raise, but the approach is roughly the same. Of course, the "unspoken rule" situation is out of our discussion.
Action1 I am an old employee, asking for a raise!
Employee: "Boss, I have been with the company for so many years, and I have grown a lot, but my salary has not increased..."
Boss: "Excuse me, who are you?"
Voice-over: Employee: I have been loyal to the company for so many years, and I did not go to job-hopping several times, so I feel at ease in my job. Could it be that the employee loyalty surveys the company has done in the past are nothing more than rhetoric? Are all just image projects? For so many years, I have not fought or made trouble, and I have paid as much as I give. If the price rises rapidly and the salary increase is far less than the CPI index, I would be embarrassed to raise my salary. It seems that the bosses have no conscience, and they cannot be expected to "discover their conscience"! Is it okay to bully me just because I'm an "old scalper"? You have undertaken so many tasks and done so many projects, how come you never see your boss? !
Boss: How much profit have you created for the company? How is your KPI performance appraisal? Does the company have a salary increase system? Isn't there a general salary increase every year? As long as your grades are good enough, you can naturally get a higher salary increase. To be honest, I really don't know who you are. Which department are you in? What have you done? How is your performance? How many big projects have you been involved in? How many useful ideas have you come up with? Do you contribute to cross-departmental collaboration? After serving in the company for so many years, I still don't know you. Do you think you are successful? Right now, even Japanese companies that focus on seniority do not have a "golden job for life". No ability or strength, sorry, goodbye, please take the door with you when you leave.
Worry-free salary increase tips: "There is no credit and hard work"? Just look at this sentence and you will know how unfounded it will be to say it! Because there is no quality "credit", I can only use the "hard work" accumulated in quantity to speak. I know that such a quantitative change cannot produce qualitative change, but may cause "degeneration". Dare to use this kind of Negotiate conditions with the boss for the unpromising salary increase reason? Don't think that the boss doesn't have an abacus in his heart. Under the situation of "maintaining stability", the boss will give a salary increase to the employees who have worked hard without credit. If this reason is put on the table, I am afraid that the boss will prevaricate with the sentence "work ability needs to be honed", or even simply "work efficiency is too low" to make you tremble.
Action2 Others are more than me, ask for a raise!
Employee: "Why is my salary the lowest in the same department? That 'Who's Who' doesn't do as much work as me!"
Boss: "Because you are you and he is him!"
Voice-over: Employee: Actually, I have carefully investigated this reason, whether it is a horizontal or vertical comparison. It would be fine if I had been kept in the dark, but I overheard everyone talking, and only then did I know that my salary increase was the smallest in the whole department. It turned out that I was working hard, but I didn’t get the reward I deserved. And according to the industry average, I'm still a long way off.
Boss: The salary increase comes with the performance appraisal. What bothers me the most is that employees go around asking for money when they get money. As a boss, I'm performance-oriented, I'm not doing philanthropy, the company is egalitarian. As for why you ask why people take more than you, because I haven't seen any strengths in you that are worth my money to invest in you. If you must say that you are far more than this price, then I can only say that I am really blind!
Worry-free salary increase tips: In every industry, there will be differences between high-income and low-income, so the factors that determine the level of salary are not only the industry, but also the people. The level of salary is actually a manifestation of ability competition, but this competition is hierarchical. Taking the pyramid as an example, the bottom layer is physical competition. Simply put, whoever has more strength and can do more will earn higher wages. Manual workers generally compete with physical strength; if everyone has the same physical strength, they will enter the level of knowledge competition. , Whoever has more knowledge, who has higher salary. If everyone's physical strength and knowledge are similar, they will enter the competition of skills. Whoever has the best skills will have the highest salary. If the level of skills is also the same, it is the competition of resources, and whoever has more resources and more skills has more room to play. You can look at yourself and see whether your current job is fighting physical strength, knowledge, skills, or resources. So, don't be entangled in "why others take more than me", it is better to do more research when you have time. On the coordinate axis of comprehensive ability, where are your coordinates? With performance and results, you must learn to show it. It does not mean that you need to take credit very deliberately, but try to grasp every opportunity to report and show, such as speeches at conferences, participation in emails, and so on.
Action3 Believe it or not I jumped ship? Ask for a raise!
Employee: "Boss, it's almost the end of the year. Give me a raise. Otherwise, I'll have to find another job."
Boss: "Then... I wish you a better future! Go well, don't send it." Voice-over: Employee: I just wanted to "threaten" the boss with the excuse of quitting. Heaven can see, this is not my intention! I just want a pay raise! Who would have known that the boss was so unkind, even if he didn't raise his salary, he didn't even say a word of retention.
Boss: First of all, you have not done your job to the point where you are absolutely necessary, and the company will not be unable to operate because of losing you. You are not as important as you think; It shows that your loyalty to the company needs to be verified, and you abandoned the company so easily. Who is impersonal? Lastly, I hate being threatened the most.
Worry-free salary increase tips: Although the most expensive thing in the 21st century is talent, but at the same time the most important thing is talent. Whether it is a newcomer in the workplace or a senior employee, the risk factor of coercing or implying the boss for a raise on the grounds of changing jobs is extremely high. If this statement is put forward directly without modification, whether or not to raise the salary is no longer the point. It becomes the employees who "force" the boss to prove their value to the company in a simple and rude way. Regardless of whether employees are indispensable to the company or how much they have contributed to the company, they have already touched the boss’s scale emotionally.