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What's the best way to ask for a raise?
I've been a financial analyst with my company for 12+ years. A controller position became available and I applied. When I finally got an "interview" 6 weeks later, the boss' first words were "we got your application, and we hired someone else."
I have taken on more responsibility without a raise at least twice. Any salary guide I look at doesn't even list my salary on their range. That tells me that if I go to another company, I should be able to make more and better support my family.
What's the best way to ask my boss for a raise? Do I talk face to face, hand in a formal request? I have the main points written out already. I have the salary guides. I have an e-mail from a recruiter looking to place me elsewhere for a $90K salary.
3 Answers
- Steve DLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
You make a formal request for a meeting, telling your boss you would like to discuss the possibility of a raise. hat allows him to know what is coming so he is more likely to be prepared to listen and discuss as opposed to rejecting your request out of hand if you spring it on him.
You then attend the meeting with all your points - taking on more responsibility, how ell you are doing your job, any awards or commendations you may have received formally or informally. Be prepared with a number. Do not go in and argue - you need to present a logical, fact-based presentation, an emotional argument will just cause your boss to not listen unemotionally and probably turn you down without consideration.
And of course if all else fails, call the headhunter back and see about accepting the other job (if your boss asks why, you can remind him that you gave him the chance to provide a raise which would have kept you around). Bosses hate it when you point where they failed.
- Anonymous7 years ago
the BEST and most effective way to tell your boss that you require a pay raise is this: "That tells me that if I go to another company, I should be able to make more... ". Go to another company, get a job offer from them, go back to your boss and tell him to get HR to match it; if not, leave for greener pastures that has a new boss, more pay, and most likely more opportunities.
1. You have to be mentally prepared to leave your employer; bluffing on this can backfire so be committed either way.
2. The harder you work the better your boss looks, the more he makes, the more credit he recieves. That is how it works. Do not fault him for keeping someone, who clearly makes him look good, in his place doing the same great job for the same measly pay: that is what a boss does. Use that to your advantage - if his ONLY choice is between you leaving (and a new guy who may or may not make him look good, or has bigger boobs) or you getting more pay (and him still getting the glory of your work) he might just prefer to have you sit in the same chair but collecting a bigger paycheck.
