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How to ask your boss for a raise.. will you try this?!

Name: How to ask your boss for a raise.. will you try this?!
Uploaded: 2022-02-01T22:20:59+00:00
Duration: 29 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this advice monologue, the speaker explains that requesting a raise should be based on a well‑structured, evidence‑backed argument rather than a…

1 Feb 2022 · 0 min

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In this advice monologue, the speaker explains that requesting a raise should be based on a well‑structured, evidence‑backed argument rather than a simple demand. The presenter advises gathering market salary data from sites like PayScale or Salary.com, analyzing one’s own role, experience, location, and industry standards, and then using this data to construct a logical case to present to the boss. The speaker emphasizes that a request lacking supporting evidence not only reduces the chance of receiving the raise but also harms future raise prospects, as it appears unreasonable to management.

If you want to ask for a raise, you want to do this. You want to not come to your boss and tell them that you deserve a raise. You want to build an argument for why you should have a raise. And so that means that you need to put together the evidence, which means you gotta go online, you gotta go to PayScale or Salary.com, you gotta do an analysis of your position, years of experience, the job, the state, all of that. You've gotta present that argument to them. So you have to use logic to present it to your boss, because if somebody comes to me and says, "I want a raise," and they have no evidence to back up why they should, not only do I not want to give them a raise, I am deterred from giving them a future raise because it was so stupid that they presented it to me with no logical evidence.