Biggest Wage Increase you got

Scanlas The 2nd · 30-10-2011 09:31AM #1

What's the biggest wage increase you got and how did it make life better/easier for you?

It can be in the same job or moving to a new job.

I was offered a new job which will increase my salary by 9K recently. I can actually buy new clothes now and go out more than once every 2 months. My current job pays sh1t money for the work we do so I was delighted to tell them I'm leaving because the money was crap. They'll be fukced fairly soon as half the team have handed in their notice or are doing interviews already because the money is so bad.

stovelid · 30-10-2011 09:36AM

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

What's the biggest wage increase you got and how did it make life better/easier for you?

Superfluous part of OP.

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

I was offered a new job which will increase my salary by 9K recently..

Important part of OP.

Oranage2 · 30-10-2011 09:40AM

Every year in Dunnes I'd get 90c an hour raise every year.

I could buy an extra mars bar in the vending maching at lunch.

My current job gives me a 2k bonus if I don't duck up.

I now have a bill pay phone.

mikemac · 30-10-2011 09:41AM

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

I was delighted to tell them I'm leaving because the money was crap.

Don't be burning bridges when you leave jobs OP

An exit interview is the same as an interview down the station with the garda sergeant.
Say nothing controversial and never speak your mind

Scanlas The 2nd · 30-10-2011 09:45AM

mikemac wrote: »

Don't be burning bridges when you leave jobs OP

An exit interview is the same as an interview down the station with the garda sergeant.
Say nothing controversial and never speak your mind

I said the money was much better in the new job. Didn't actually say the money is crap in current job.

Probably for their own good they hear that too as it's hard to manage a team well when people keep leaving for better money.

Squall19 · 30-10-2011 09:50AM

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

I was delighted to tell them I'm leaving because the money was crap.

You did say money was crap!

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

They'll be fukced fairly soon as half the team have handed in their notice or are doing interviews already because the money is so bad

They will be fine, dont you worry and dont believe everything your work mates tell you.They will be delighted you are leaving as it now gives them more leverage.

daddydick · 30-10-2011 09:57AM

Depending on exam results next month I could be getting a 10k increase ... Please please please pass me!

mikemac · 30-10-2011 10:05AM

daddydick wrote: »

Depending on exam results next month I could be getting a 10k increase ... Please please please pass me!

Accountant?

mfceiling · 30-10-2011 10:14AM

Working in Oz in 2000.
Warehouse job getting 340-360 dollars a week.
Left to go working for an Irish builder - following weeks wage - 890 dollars!!
Sweet...

Paddy Cow · 30-10-2011 10:21AM

One summer I looked after four kids and was paid £5 per day. When I returned the following summer it was £10 per day!

Victor · 30-10-2011 11:07AM

Paddy Cow wrote: »

One summer I looked after four kids and was paid £5 per day. When I returned the following summer it was £10 per day!

What do goat herders get these days?

Rabies · 30-10-2011 11:12AM

Got two $10k pay increases in past 2 years.
Happy with that.

Still don't know where my money goes though

Elessar · 30-10-2011 11:26AM

I got a 2k/year raise there in September. It's still woefull money for the hours I work though, and the type of work I do.

du Maurier · 30-10-2011 11:30AM

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

What's the biggest wage increase you got and how did it make life better/easier for you?

It can be in the same job or moving to a new job.

I was offered a new job which will increase my salary by 9K recently. I can actually buy new clothes now and go out more than once every 2 months. My current job pays sh1t money for the work we do so I was delighted to tell them I'm leaving because the money was crap. They'll be fukced fairly soon as half the team have handed in their notice or are doing interviews already because the money is so bad.

People will be leaving you say? Forward me the details of your workplace please..

DaveDaRave · 30-10-2011 03:45PM

Got a nice increase of €188 from €0.

Elliemental · 30-10-2011 04:04PM

About a single £1.00, and I was pathetically grateful.

30-10-2011 04:21PM

£5 an hour during the summer (I changed jobs). I'm now working part-time and making more than I used to make doing full-time. Happy days.

LeixlipRed · 30-10-2011 04:50PM

Doing some support lectures this year and getting paid €60 an hour for those. As opposed to half that for a regular tutorial. Take preparation into account and I'm getting paid way less, boo urns.

jesus_thats_gre · 30-10-2011 04:57PM

18k - was about a 50% increase.

The_B_Man · 30-10-2011 06:24PM

About 16% one year. I got more by moving jobs though.

MyKeyG · 30-10-2011 06:30PM

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

They'll be fukced fairly soon as half the team have handed in their notice or are doing interviews already because the money is so bad.

The dole Q's are too long for any company to worry about notices handed in en masse. They'll fill ye're seats while they're still warm and learn from their mistake regarding crap wages.

4leto · 30-10-2011 06:36PM

I have taken a decrease in the last few years of about 170 a week, it really is starting to pinch, my money is OK as long as there is no financial shocks which of course there is all the time, such as my roof leaking in the rain last week, result, 350 to the fukcen roofers, but I might claim that on the insurance.

Eve_Dublin · 30-10-2011 06:43PM

I got an increase of 1 Euro per hour this year. Makes a difference.:)

Cill Dara Abu · 30-10-2011 06:46PM

Started my job on €34,000 per year now on €61,000

Dont be at yourself · 30-10-2011 06:47PM

About 35k, double what I was on at the time. The German government took it all, though.

BrokenArrows · 30-10-2011 06:49PM

Got about an €8000 increase for a new job in the UK.

However the tax and rent is a lot more so I think I'm actually worse off.

mrsbouquet · 30-10-2011 06:52PM

DaveDaRave wrote: »

Got a nice increase of €188 from €0.

Jobseekers allowance I gather:mad:

cloneslad · 30-10-2011 07:01PM

went from earning 24,000,000 (basic) to earning 27,600,000 a year. Was also getting a guaranteed bonus of about 8,000,000 every year on top of my basic. I was also able to earn more working for myself on top of that.

Wasn't bad for less than 20 hours a week work.

Cill Dara Abu · 30-10-2011 07:04PM

cloneslad wrote: »

went from earning 24,000,000 (basic) to earning 27,600,000 a year. Was also getting a guaranteed bonus of about 8,000,000 every year on top of my basic. I was also able to earn more working for myself on top of that.

Wasn't bad for less than 20 hours a week work.

Not a maths teacher I presume?

starlit · 30-10-2011 07:08PM

Never got an increase except when I started working salary higher than what I had originally but since then my salary decreased due to levy. Then left that job and income just decreasing since.

cloneslad · 30-10-2011 07:11PM

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Not a maths teacher I presume?

Close....English teacher.

Both those initial figures were my basic pay. The bonuses were added to both, though my bonus after the increase also increased inline with it.

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