Asking for a raise can be severely intimidating and regardless of how long you’ve been working for a company, it never gets easier.
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Weeks before you’re about to head into a meeting to talk about your raise, make a list of all of your positive qualities and your daily job role.
This way, when you’re trying to make your case about how you deserve that pay raise, it’s clear to yourself and your boss just how valuable you are to the team and how great you are at handling your daily tasks.
The number one rule for negotiating? Ask for a little more than you want and allow the other party some space to consider how much they’re able to give.
Find out how much another person with the same role as you is getting at a different company. Research on companies that are both bigger and smaller than yours and see where you stand on this.
This helps your gauge on average just how much your job role usually pays. On top of this, weed out their employment benefits too.
While getting a pay raise is the ultimate goal here, ask yourself, is this the only thing that matters?
Are you looking for your boss to give you a pay raise and to feel appreciated? If so, you’re probably going to need more than just a pay raise.
It’s important that your job provides not with the resources you want but the resources you need to grow as a human being too.
While there’s no way you can predict how well the meeting will go or if you’ll get the increment you want, here’s what thing you can in fact prepare for: the possibility that you might not leave with the increment you want.
So instead of leaving the meeting feeling upset and worried, make sure you leave the meeting feeling like you’ve been heard and that your concerns have been addressed.
If in the worst case scenario, you don’t get the pay increment you wanted, ask yourself if you need to walk away from this job.