Question About Asking For A Raise?

When was your last pay raise, and how much was it for? If you’ve been there two years with no raise, asking to be bumped up to $15.00 isn’t unreasonable. If you got a raise in the past year or so and it was significantly less than the $.68 you want to ask for, you need to be ready to justify why you are worth that. This needs to be the things you do that add value to the business and set you apart from you coworkers. You are basically asking for a 5% increase. In retail, that’s higher than average, so you need to be performing above average. What your coworkers make is irrelevant, what minimum wage might do is irrelevant. And when you say the minimum you will accept is $.50, are you prepared to quit your job on the spot if they don’t give it to you? Because unless you are a critical employee they cannot function without, be very careful about an ultimatum, employers don’t respond well to threats.

Typically raises are about 3% to 4% each year.  In retail, you normally have salary reviews once or twice a year.  If this is a major company and you have been there 2 years, you should have gone through several salary/performance reviews.  What does your company website or employee manual say about performance reviews????

I would think you should be getting about 50 cent an hour raise every 6 months.