So, did you get a pay rise or what?

Another interesting blog Kate.  I can’t comment personally on pay rises as I have been self employed for over a decade but those statistics from the US are shocking!  Good luck to GM with incoming staff pay at 50% of other workers in the organization.  I can say of my friends employed here in Australia their salaries either stay the same or they receive pay raises.  At least they’re not going backwards!

I moved companies and received more pay for the same level job. Three other companies also offered positions at above 10 percent increase.  My old company counter-offered but they weren’t willing to go up to 10 percent, however I imagine they would have paid much more to advertise, hire and train a replacement. Companies need to implement more creative ideas to keep staff, because it’s too appealing for staff to move if they’re not being rewarded.

“Payrise in July” Who do I speak to about that?I work in an industry (auto) where margins are continually getting squeezed so payrises are very hard to come by. I did negotiate a deal where I get a bonus for additional profit created but I had to listen to a lecture and work for it.

Yes, 6% actually, can’t complain. Salary was pretty tasty beforehand too.

I would be surprised if many people outside of Council on the Gold Coast have received a pay rise in the past 2 years.

After all, the Gold Coast unemployment level is rumoured to be above 10%.

I work for a company closely related to the development industry, and no one has received a pay rise in the past 2 years.

Much of this has to do with dwindling income due to bankrupt developers.

This year i received an 11% increase. I have worked for my current company for 6 years now and each year except last year i have received a 3 - 10% increase. I think starting somewhere as a jr and working your way up helps.

dealbreaker, 10% is a lot (depending on your role),the problem from the employer side (and I’ve seen this happen a number of times)is that even if they agree to the full rise, whats to stop the employee pulling the same stunt in 6 months time? And telling all their colleagues how smart they are at playing the system?

Agreeing creates a bigger headache for the company in the long run, better to pay a couple of thousand to advertise and train, than give an out of banding payrise and then have to hire and train again in a few months anyway.

You already had a foot out the door, why would your employer make the effort to keep you at that stage?

On the otherhand if your employer doesn’t give oportunities for regular cpi or performace based payrises (say once per year) then they are probably getting what they deserve.

Nope. Nothing.

So, lets do a fun exercise shall we ? Lets note a few rises that I’ve suffered under given the last few months - most from QLD state and local government mismanagement.

Car rego...up $50 per 6 months. Vehicles x 2.
Council rates...up $100 per 6 months.
Public transport...up $100 per month.
Home loan...up around $200 per month.
Electricity...up $100 per quarter.
Body Corporate...up $100 per quarter.
Water...expecting $200 per quarter.
Petrol...up 20c per litre. About $50 per month.
Food...up around $50 per month.
Insurances...up around $75 per month.

That’s what I can think of off the top of my head…

For anyone bothering to keep a tally, that’s $5,300 per annum in net salary, equating to almost $10,000 gross that I need to receive as a pay rise from my employer just to break even.

Fellow bloggers, don’t bother coming to QLD...it’s the state of mismanagement. I thought NSW was bad. This place takes the cake.

Kate, you may wish to follow up with an article as to what entitles the government to jack up everything because of their own financial mismanagement, knowing full well a large portion of the population have received little or no pay rises.

I’m no maths expert, but I am certain all these rises are greater than CPI...so why are many employees restricted to CPI rises in their pay ?

Automatic 4% for me.  Not a bad rise considering I got a promotion a couple months before that with another significant payrise. Guess I’m in an industry that supports it.

Mind you, this is the last year of our current EBA, so it’ll probably drop as of next year, if we get anything at all. I remember when I first started this job it was a 1% increase (laughable).

Yes, just got a 4.5% increase, plus a bonus.  Working as a PA also.  I’m very lucky that I work for a great company who look after their staff.

I haven’t been bothered to work out a percentage but my net pay went up $10 a week. I didn’t even notice it. After seeing this blog I checked my payslip and found out. I guess it’s not much to write home about.

No pay rise for me :(

I wasn’t expecting one, as we are currently in the midst of a large project, and horribly behind. The company doesn’t get paid until certain milestones are reached, and when we are finally finished the quota for this project I will be putting my hand out. 14 - 18 hour days just to try to catch up are killing me.

The problem will become knowing my salary increase will be at the expense of a casual employee.

I got 15% payrise in July working as accountant. However I did not get receive bonus or payment for the many hours of overtime I did.  My payrise also compensate for missing out on non-cash benefits. I was made aware that my workload in the new financial year will be a lot more complex and demanding. So I guess the payrise really is not that generous compares to others.

I received 12.5% at my July review, although I’ve had to work pretty hard to get it. I was told I was expected to fail in the position, so when I didn’t, they were happy to reward me. I work in purchasing - promoted from admin assistant after an unexpected resignation. No purchasing experience so had to jump in with both feet and quickly learn to swim. So far, so good!

I got one but it came with a promotion so I am not sure it really counts. Through in the fact that I was at the top of one pay bracket and have moved to the bottom of the next and my pay rise is a whole $500pa more than I was earning but its better than nothing.

Most people in Australia should expect in time the American experience to be replicated here.

If another nation pays only 20% of what a worker here earns it is inevitable that a global equilibrium will be eventually reached in regards to wages and conditions, for many but not all jobs.

Importing goods on a massive scale and removing your own countries productive capacity can lead to nothing good in the longer term.

We have only just started to see the results of the decades of neglect that we have inflicted on our manufacturing and service industries.

How crazy to send our jobs offshore and then still expect to be able to pay people well for their labour. We are essentially destroying our own economy and long term futures for the sake of a fast buck.

I pity the young and the future they will enjoy in this once great country. Maybe they can start learning Cantonese and Mandarin now and when their new masters need help running the country they have bought using our own debt to do so they can assist them.

I’m in the commercial construction industry… Haven’t had a payrise in three years. Business has been pretty tough…

Interested to know if there are any commercial construction companies actually increasing salaries at the moment..?

a useless 2% or about $34 a month, feel like i’m stuck between a rock and a hard place, got this Job as a grad using outdated technology been here for three years getting paid 50K no other jobs out there, so what do i do? take a 10K paycut and get another grad job or what?

Got 15%, very happy. Engineering / Construction for mining company - reviews are done in March, but rises start in July backdated to March.

Nothing yet, won’t find out till September. Last year it was 3% the year before 6%. This year I am hoping for about 5%, maybe?

We also get performance related bonuses, last year it was about $6k pre tax, the year before $11k pre tax. So this year I am guessing around 8k before tax?

I think somewhere in between the last two years due to the GFC.

I work for a large mining company, in a regional area.