If you missed part one of this article, you can check it out here.
The tips we shared in part one of this post gave insights on some techniques you can use to ask for a pay raise from your boss, and in this post, we went to further to share more techniques to consider before asking for the pay raise to ensure you get it.
You should know that asking for a pay raise is a completely normal part of having a job, especially if you are sure that you are deserving of it and have done your due diligence as an employee.
Here are a few more tips and techniques that can help you get the pay raise you desire.
- Prepare a document that highlights your worth to the company
To be on the safe side, prepare a document ahead of time that highlights the value you contribute to the company, how you love what you do for the company, but believe you’re now worth more, and so on.
If you do this, your potential supervisor or manager would have no reason but to, if not give you what you want, then consider your request.
It is crucial to make your argument with compelling evidence for why now is the ideal time for a pay raise and no better way to do this than to put it in a script.
- Be Future-Oriented
Discuss the future, discuss your ambitions and ideas, and show that you care about what you do. Set out your career aims and ambitions, and then explain how they will help your company achieve its strategic objectives.
If you do this, you are giving your boss the best reason to say yes by tying what you’re going to deliver and the value you’ll bring to the company with your salary raise request.
- There are different ways to get the same results
You don’t it get unless you ask. The worst that can happen is that your manager or boss will decline your request. If this occurs, maintain a professional demeanor and refrain from reacting emotionally.
Use it as an opportunity to learn and figure out why you didn’t get it this time. Don’t scare your boss by resigning; they’ll most likely call your bluff, and your relationship will suffer as a result.
If a pay raise isn’t attainable right now, you can ask for other things you value instead: professional growth, more vacation time, membership in a professional organization, gym membership, paid volunteer days, and so on and when the time for another opportunity to ask presents itself, do not hesitate to go again.
If you missed part one, you can check it out here.