How to ask your employer for a raise – The advice given by experts

Psychologists, managers and workers they give the precious ones their tips on how to successfully apply increase from your employer. As they admit, it is not an easy question. One employer, Stu Smith, still remembers the question he received from one of his employees. He had a branding company with 10 employees at the time and brought one into his office to have a “difficult” conversation. The additional duties that she had assigned him outside of full-time work, were beginning to affect her performance of. “Simply double my salary and I’m going to stop doing all this work, for good measure,” Mr. Smith recalled his employee telling him. “No, that’s not exactly the way things work,” he thought then.

To receive a increase, most people should take another approach. But unlike Mr. Smith’s bold employee, most people put off even asking gradual increases, possibly losing significant compensation, to avoid an “awkward” discussion.

The New York Times they asked people who have managed to get a raise and also some who have studied psychology and business management, to give their best advice on how to prepare for and face such a conversation to make more money. Asking to be paid more can make employees feel a bit vulnerable is a difficult question, akin to “Will you go to the prom with me?” the professional life of adults. The biggest mistake people make is to postpone the conversation, discouraged by the possibility of rejection, according to Daniel Pink, author of best-selling books on work and work behavior, including his latest, “The Power of Regret“, the publication notes. “They underestimate the chances of getting one”Yes” and they overestimate the negative consequences of a simple question,” he said.

“It is difficult for people to defend injustice”

It’s just a business, but of course the business it is made up of people. Remind yourself that your boss expects these conversations. If you’re someone whose compensation could be affected by persistent pay gaps based on, say, gender, asking for more is a way to express your expectation that you’re being paid fairly.

Jazmine Reed, senior recruiter and career manager, has managed dozens of people and says it’s usually women and introverts who thinks they are less likely to ask for a raise. “I think most of them manager – most, not all – if they could wave a stick and give you more money, they would,” he said. He learned an important lesson once when he was making $40,000 a year. She told a recruiter she wanted to come with $45,000 for her next position. The recruiter misheard the $10,000 and apologized that he could only pay her $55,000. It was the moment he taught her it’s okay to ask for more money.

“At the end of the day, and this is a fact, nobody is ever going to overpay you,” he said. “Almost every person is, in some respects, underpaid,” he concluded.