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working for an agency when to ask/expect pay increase?

  • 06-09-2007 11:14am
    #1
    almo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭


    Hi,

    Just wondering what the deal is with getting a pay rise from an agency.
    Been at this position 6 months now, all good feedback, so when is it good to ask?
    Any thoughts appreciated.:)


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  • #2
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    I'm not sure I totally understand -

    You work for a recruitment agency or you got the job via a recruitment agency?


  • #3
    almo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭almo


    oh i work for the agency but not in their office. They got me the job but I am not employed by the company I work for I am by the agency. Right?
    they pay my wages.


  • #4
    dame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭dame


    I'll be starting work in a new job soon which will be similar. It's a contract role so the company paying me will be putting me working somewhere else under contract. I think that's what your situation is too? Anyway, I don't know if this is the norm but I'll be having a pay review after 3 months.


  • #5
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    When you took the job you would have signed a contract with the agency - is it permanent or for a fixed term, e.g. 12 months?

    If it's a fixed term contract you won't get a pay raise during the contract...

    If it's a permanent position ask the agency when are your salary reviews. No doubt they're once a year...


  • #6
    Stky10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭Stky10


    Any chances you have of getting an increase depend on how much they're making on having you employed in this way. ie you're billing them a daily rate of x, they're billing the company you work with a daily rate of x+y.

    So how hard did you bargain with them at the beginning of the contract?. If you just accepted the rate they offered you then y is probably pretty healthy, and they could afford to take a hit on this. If you bargained hard with them then y is probably much smaller, so you've less chance.


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  • #7
    IRISH RAIL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,097 ✭✭✭IRISH RAIL


    Ha Ha im sorry for being a pig here
    but do you honestly think you will get a raise with an agency ??
    not a chance they will sooner give you the boot and get someone else in to take your place,
    remember the number one rule "never trust an agency"


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