Time for a Raise?
It was time. I have been on my job for a year. My boss told me when I started that we would talk about a raise after 90 days. This never happened. I didn’t mind because a few months after I started the job I received a large profit-sharing check. With my salary and profit-sharing I was making a good salary for my first professional position. But that was then…this is now. I want and need a raise.
I decided I would approach my boss (since he hasn’t ever uttered a word about a raise to me.) I spent two weeks doing research (thankfully there’s the internet) about the average pay for a position such as mine. I talked to friends “in the know” and I checked want ads. Once I determined the amount of raise that I wanted and a salary that was “fair” according to industry standards, I began making a list of all my accomplishments during the past year (there were many).