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I'm thinking of asking for a raise at work. It's been a year since I got my last one. I'm only looking to make $1/hour more. I've never done this before and I feel really nervous about it. Has anyone else done it before?

I can let you know that $1/hr more is actually a pretty huge leap and will likely never be agreed to. If you're lucky you might get .70/hr, but I'd bank on closer to .40/.50.

My last raise (which I got last October) was $1/hour, so I don't think it's that unreasonable.

Was that one offered or did you ask for it? 'Cause that makes a big difference.

I genuinely hope you get it, don't get me wrong. But an offered $1/hr may have seemed reasonable to them at the time, and may certainly not now. There's also always the chance that if you get it, your hours will be cut to compensate.

I'd aim for 50 cents as well. The worst they can do is say no. I like this website's tips https://www.thebalance.com/how-to-ask-for-a-raise-525830

Well, no. The worst thing they could say is, "No and also you're fired".

Ask for the $1 and the haggle down a little maybe?

Yeah. I don't agree with the comments saying anon should be conservative. Go higher than you actually want and then negotiate.

Idk, I sure wouldn't chance it as an hourly employee. If it was salaried work, then hell yeah, aim high, but hourly? You're expendable, and they'll look for ways to get rid of you for being "greedy."

I said that having already read anon's comment about successfully getting a $1 raise before, but I agree that successfully reading the workplace context is helpful.

At the same time, part of asking for a raise is convincing them that you aren't expendable, and if you're working for a shitty company that doesn't give a fuck, you had no future there anyway.

I think knowing what to do and being prepared in case you're told no is good advice regardless, though.

$1/hour is a big raise. Just because they've received one last year doesn't mean it'll be the new normal. It might mean just the opposite, actually.

As a percentage, a dollar raise per hour is probably not a realistic goal unless

1) You are absolutely goddamn amazing at your job AND are doing things that others can't.

2) Your wages were lower than the industry norm in the first place.

I don't agree with the comments telling you to go for it or that there's nothing to lose. You haven't provided much detail, and "the worst they could say is no" is terrible advice if people aren't familiar with your situation. Ask yourself these questions:

* How much was your last raise?
* Is it typical for your employer to give regular raises every year?
* Is your boss fair and reasonable?
* What do you think your boss' assessment of YOU will be?
* How was your performance this past year? Have you done anything that particularly merits a raise? Be brutally honest with yourself. Just doing your job well is the minimum requirement, not an amazing achievement.
* Are you the kind of employee who's always on time, doesn't duck out early or take lots of sick days, etc. Do you finish assignments in a timely manner? Do you require a lot of hand-holding?
* What's the average hourly wage for your position, and how does that compare with your current hourly wage?
* Can you be easily replaced in your job? Because if you can be, then you're making trouble for yourself. Ask yourself why they would keep you and pay you more instead of hiring a new person and paying them your current hourly wage or less? This isn't to be mean here, you genuinely have to figure out what you specifically bring to the table that other people don't.

You might think that another $1 per hour isn't a lot, but that rather depends on what your wages are now. If you're earning $10/hour, that's a 10% raise. I don't know if you realize this, but that's actually huge. It's rare for salaried workers to get that high of a percentage of a raise. A bonus, maybe. A raise, no. Think more like 3%. For someone who earns $10/hour, that's a raise of .30/hour. If you can't answer the above questions and justify to yourself that you deserved and earned a raise, then I wouldn't bring it up.

I worked 11 years for one company as one of the top employees who never had a less than excellent review, and in that time (which included a "raise" for taking away personal days) my salary went up about $2.50/hour. $1 an hour is huge. Especially if you fairly recently (which I consider a year ago to be) already got a huge raise. (Unless, of course, you make like $40/hour, so the percentage increase is less, which I doubt.)

Does your job have any policy on raises? Mine offered 1% a year, 2% a year if you did really well. And one year they said costs had gone up too much and they couldn't give anyone a raise. There really wasn't much negotiating with that. If your work has such a policy it can be awkward and possibly risky to ask for a raise. The questions the other anon asked are great to go through before you think it might be a good idea to ask.

With that being said, I would say to do your homework. If you've had good reviews, collect them. If you've completed successful projects, document them and your input into them. Document times you did above and beyond what was asked of you. If you have an upcoming project that will require a lot of work, mention what you are doing on it. Have a compelling case as to why you are so great that you deserve more. And even with that, I honestly would just ask for a raise, not specifically $1 more. As I think it would be better to leave that up to them rather than risk looking greedy. Unless you are sure there will not be negative repercussions and/or that you can easily find another job if it blows up in your face.

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