One of the most popular posts on this blog was Average Raise? in which I simply asked readers what their raises looked like. Seems like something lots of people try to find out by using google to compare their raises to averages.
When I’ve been employed by someone, I think my raise always fell in between 3-5%, which was sort of standard wherever I worked. It looks like that’s still standard:
A study released Tuesday by Hewitt Associates, a human resources consulting firm, found base pay will rise by 3.8 percent in 2009, marking the seventh consecutive year of flat growth.
So it looks like your raise is not going to be big in 2009. But you probably already knew that. You may be able to earn more as merit or performance pay though. Employers tend to like that sort of bonus because it’s a one time thing.
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