FlightMan

Was lucky enough to get a pay rise this year. I know many didn't.

Back dated to Jan 1st, pay slip dropped through the door this morning.

An extra £153 net. My pay rise was £159 per month, gross.

**** that for a tax band!!!

rossyboy

iTrader: (8)

I dont get it. You're getting an extra £153 in your pocket each month and you're complaining

I just got mine through, back-dated to 1st October. Increase of 0.5%, which is about £12 a month net.

rossyboy

iTrader: (8)

ah, wait just re-read it. Not quite as good then.

windyboy

a what ? a pay rise ? what's that ???

windyboy

Leslie

True austerity would be a very nasty shock!

Les

SpecDscooby

Are you saying you got £153 combined in all the months since JAn 1st?...in which case i get it......Tell me about TAX....In May i will pay ££££'s in tax...

but better will be my BONUS....being paid out in MAY!....bonjour...last yr very good..results better this year....gotta be the same or a touch more......hmmm new car, garage conversation, or back to Vegas....I know what my mrs wants, and its not Vegas

All gets paid at once so my tax bill for may will be monumental....Love the UK!!

stilover

I just got my letter today with my wage slip.

0% wage rise. Then driving home I noticed that Diesel had gone up another 2p a litre since I last tanked up. Brilliant.

tony de wonderful

If you were a Teacher you would be striking LOL.

Petem95

I got 5%, but wouldn't call it a rise - more an adjustment with inflation running at that level!

Most people are getting a pay decrease in real terms

Jamz3k

I got a significant pay increase in Nov 2010 as I sat down with my MD and explained that I couldn't continue working at my current rate of pay. I checked my payslips from back in 2007 and with the same company I was earning on average an extra £400 per month.

Times are grim I tell yee!

Terminator X

iTrader: (7)

**** poor rise in 2008 & nowt since rises are due in May & I'm not holding my breathe for 2011

TX.

PS

Many will be worse off this month too as although the tax free allowance increased, they dropped the starting rate for 40% & added another 1% on NI ...

Clarebabes

I didn't get a pay rise or an increment this/last year, so I have no sympathy, sorry. Though I did pay less tax and less NI this month than last due to new tax band.

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

Been offered a new job so currently waiting to hear the offer. I'm hoping it improves my situation..... well it's not a great career move if it doesn't

lordharding

iTrader: (1)

I'm a grand worse of this year as commission pays large part of my salary and no end of years bonus too

Most people in the company are down too

Good times are over thanks to the mess the UK is in and petrol is £50more a month then 2years ago.

Steve vRS

I had a small % increase but then the lowering of the 40% threshold means that I am only £50 per month richer. However, my wife (a teacher) has had her hours cut to 3 days per week so as a family, we might have to go to Krug from Cristal.

Steve

pslewis

I got 6% last year and I'd better get the same this year too!!

Why? well - thanks to the Tories, inflation is running at 5% ... I have to pay extra into my pension every month (to get the SAME out as I was going to get in years past) - are you listening striking Teachers?

NI is up 1% and the Tax Band has dropped so more of my pay is in the 40% Tax Band!!

A 6% rise is the MINIMUM I should receive just to stay still ... thanks Tories!!

cookstar

iTrader: (6)

5.2 % This year, I haven't received it yet though but when the union agree on other issues it will be backdated from Jan 1st.

Gear Head

iTrader: (2)

And what if your company has not increased it's profit by that amount?

Jerome

If you are working, at whatever rate, consider yourselves lucky.

Last June, the company I was working for was liquidated. It took 3 months to get another job. I was then laid off just before Christmas. I am still looking now, and the future isn't bright.

I worked in IT management and it would seem there are so many people applying for each job that employers can be extremely choosy.

I have applied for a digital tacho to work as a lorry driver as I have a wedding and honeymoon to pay for this summer.

FlightMan

Some of the replies on here, I'm excluding PSL from that, put things into perspective a little. Which is never a bad thing so thanks to all. Hope things work out for everyone.

Leslie

Didn't you say a while ago that you would not vote Labour any more because they had messed up your pension?

Les

pslewis

Les

They didn't mess my Pension up - they walked away from a long agreement and tore up the paper which said I had a copper bottomed guarantee that my Pension would be every bit as good as it was in 1993!! The back stabbing b4stards!!!

But, you see, Les ... a cheating Labour Government is much better than a Tory Government filled with snobs who wouldn't know a hard days work if they got it smacked in their faces!!

Leslie

All I ask for is a government with people who remember that they were elected to run this country for the sake of its people instead of furthering their own careers at the expense of the people, reneging on their election promises, and apparently being quite happy to hand this country to the dogs in exchange for their own selfish reasons.

I cannot see how anyone can ever accept a government of acknowledged cheats.

Les