| In my experience, a pay-rise is rare unless there is direct pressure from you, or the company believes that they'd be worse off if you were given a better offer elsewhere. If you have no leverage, then it's not in the company's interests to pay you any more money. It sounds like you've at least queried the lack of a pay-rise, so some options might be: 1: Demand a pay-rise outright. You're being asked to take on more responsibility and accountability with a 'promotion'. It's only fair that your greater sacrifice is rewarded with greater compensation. 2: Negotiate terms of your new contract - additional benefits, or a guaranteed pay-rise after x amount of time, or something else you'd like. 3: Find an external offer, then use that as a negotiating tool. If they really want to keep you, they'll find a way to strike a deal. If not, then at least you can move elsewhere. Basically this argument that 'you're 100% at your current level, but only 85% at the next level' is bollocks. If the new role is more responsibility, more accountability, and generally more demanding and difficult to do well, then that should be reflected in the compensation. No ifs or buts - anything else is simply taking advantage of people. A lot can happen in a year - particularly the stresses of taking on more responsibility and having to be more accountable - do they really think it's fair that you should be forced to do this for no extra pay? In a year, what's stopping them 'promoting' you again to an even more difficult job but where you're only at '50% of the benchmark'? It's a load of horse-shit. |