Part Time Worker - Salary Increase Request ??

1966

Hi - just looking for some advice. Am working in Financial Services and have 18 yrs experience. Since arrival of 3 children I have been working part time (20 hours p.w.) for last 5 years and am on "top of the scale" for my position. For last 18 months I have also been training a new recruit, who came from another insitution and would have about 7 yrs experience, and all is going well. She earns 32k and my annual is €23k (on a full time basis would be about 43k) however my net income is, obviously, much less as is my annual bonus.

Am feeling the pinch now at month end and think I need to talk to my boss about pay rise. Have only rec'd cost of living pay rises for last 3 years as being on top of my salary scale I no longer get increments. Do you think this is an unfair request - bearing in mind that when boss is on leave, I assume his role etc and my output for 20 hours is still considerably greater than others who work full time and this has been commented on time & time again?????

AARRRGH

I think there is no harm asking for a raise. I have done this in the past and it has always been successful.

If you are honest ("Am feeling the pinch now at month end") I would think they would be sympathetic.

suckslikeafox

No harm in asking, it sounds like you deserve it. Whats the worst that could happen?

CSC

No doubt you will but make sure you go into the meeting with plenty of examples of why you deserve the increase.
If someone came to me asking for a raise I would automatically ask them to tell me why they should get it. Don't assume your boss knows all you do.

The_Conductor

If there is a defined salary scale (which there is), it is a fact of life that you will only receive the cost of living increases once you reach the maximum of your scale. It may be that you might qualify for an allowance (as opposed to a pay rise) in recognition of extra duties, while you are training in new staff for example (this would be on a temporary basis, and would be related to you undertaking duties over and above what would be considered normal for your grade).

Unfortunately its not the case that its in your manager's giving to simply give you a payrise. The payscales as they exist, were agreed with the IBOA and other employee representatives. If your manager were to simply give you a payrise outside of the salary scale- your organisation would be up in the LRC for months with copycat claims from your colleagues. I've been involved in submissions trying to justify ringfenced payrises for small groups of staff- we gave up.

You really have two possibilities open to you-

1. Go for promotion to the next grade up, which I assume you would be more than capable of.
or
2. Increase the number of hours/days you work- towards what would be considered a fulltime basis- i.e. work more hours, get paid more.

Unfortunately- we're all feeling the pinch in the current climate. Given the current economic situation though- its simply not feasible to reasonably expect a payrise over and above cost of living increases- without giving something out of the ordinary in exchange for it. If you're not willing to increase your hours- the possibility of a temporary allowance for training new staff or for other duties out of the ordinary- would be the way to go.

HashSlinging

Dont know your situation but maybe the missus might like to help out and work the hours you dont. Would help take the pressure off you, esp if you both were to work part time.