I have an hourly part time job as a field sales merchandising rep. I just found out that the starting pay for my job position is $1.50 more than what it was when I was hired 7-8 years ago.
Right now I am making $2.29 more than when I started. That means I am only making 79 cents more than a new hire. That means my annual performance raises have only been worth about 11 cents per year.
The company hasn't said anything about giving the rest of us a cost of living increase. This is not right.
I suspect that if I bring this up, and god forbid ask for more money, they would probably expect me to "earn" the increase by my performance, rather than approaching it like a cost of living increase as it really should be.
Does anyone else here have any experience with something like this? What did you do about it?
24 Jan 2015, 12:37 pm
