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A few data points about pay raises.
WeTeachFaculty, where I work now, is public service, implies collective labour agreements, implies small increments. Not coupled at all to performance reviews, which The Director didn't do until very recently anyway, but suddenly started, to everyone's surprise. (This may well be related to that recent employee survey that very visibly showed a high, and I mean high, degree of discontent of the employees with The Director. Maybe he did get some flak for that from The Chancellor after all.)
My other places of work were diverse.
VeryNiceCompany[1] did yearly performance review cum next year planning / objective agreement, where they also declared your incremental pay raise. This would have been the place to claim spectacular successes or developments and so a higher pay raise, only I didn't have those.
[1] my first one, mid-sized[2], and, in hindsight, a really great work environment
[2] grew from ~90 to > 250 before being hit by the burst of the Internet bubble and was shortly after bought out by WeMakeChips
The small startup WeLoveMulticast where I was for 16 months in between was founded by a former colleague from VNC, so he copied many of their processes, including reviews and pay raises. He had worse ideas than this.
WeMakeChips had roughly the same, only in a more refined and regulated way. When it came to the obligatory objective agreement, my boss said, well, what shall I say, keep on doing what you're doing? Yes, I said, that sounds quite right. So it is that then, he said. (He was a good one.) Incremental pay raise, only at one point I had a really good rating, but a definitely sub-average pay raise. I had some suspicion why that was, but my boss had said nothing of it. I found that kind of dishonest and it was the final straw to leave.
MobileInternetEnablers did nothing, IIRC, in the 2.5 years I was there — no performance reviews, no pay raise. Maybe the way was to go to the boss and say "I want!", only I didn't.
WeHostMillions did yearly performance review cum some planning, objective agreements were quite like at WMC. No pay raise, though, despite very good ratings — to get one, I'd probably have had to claim one, which I didn't. That wasn't only due to cowardice, but I also didn't want the pay to be a bigger reason to stay there than it already was. After 4 years, when WHM had been bought by FormerStateMonopolyTelco, suddenly a 10 % pay raise. What a coincidence. And then, after a year, I left for public service and 20 % less.
WeTeachFaculty, where I work now, is public service, implies collective labour agreements, implies small increments. Not coupled at all to performance reviews, which The Director didn't do until very recently anyway, but suddenly started, to everyone's surprise. (This may well be related to that recent employee survey that very visibly showed a high, and I mean high, degree of discontent of the employees with The Director. Maybe he did get some flak for that from The Chancellor after all.)
My other places of work were diverse.
VeryNiceCompany[1] did yearly performance review cum next year planning / objective agreement, where they also declared your incremental pay raise. This would have been the place to claim spectacular successes or developments and so a higher pay raise, only I didn't have those.
[1] my first one, mid-sized[2], and, in hindsight, a really great work environment
[2] grew from ~90 to > 250 before being hit by the burst of the Internet bubble and was shortly after bought out by WeMakeChips
The small startup WeLoveMulticast where I was for 16 months in between was founded by a former colleague from VNC, so he copied many of their processes, including reviews and pay raises. He had worse ideas than this.
WeMakeChips had roughly the same, only in a more refined and regulated way. When it came to the obligatory objective agreement, my boss said, well, what shall I say, keep on doing what you're doing? Yes, I said, that sounds quite right. So it is that then, he said. (He was a good one.) Incremental pay raise, only at one point I had a really good rating, but a definitely sub-average pay raise. I had some suspicion why that was, but my boss had said nothing of it. I found that kind of dishonest and it was the final straw to leave.
MobileInternetEnablers did nothing, IIRC, in the 2.5 years I was there — no performance reviews, no pay raise. Maybe the way was to go to the boss and say "I want!", only I didn't.
WeHostMillions did yearly performance review cum some planning, objective agreements were quite like at WMC. No pay raise, though, despite very good ratings — to get one, I'd probably have had to claim one, which I didn't. That wasn't only due to cowardice, but I also didn't want the pay to be a bigger reason to stay there than it already was. After 4 years, when WHM had been bought by FormerStateMonopolyTelco, suddenly a 10 % pay raise. What a coincidence. And then, after a year, I left for public service and 20 % less.