What is your salary increase this year?

[DesiRX]

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So I found out I am getting bumped from 52 something to 57 something, I am stoked. I work in a community hospital in the New England and I work overnights. so 57 plus a $2.15 overnight differential.

 

[Dysic]

I've been working at walmart for about half a year now (2013 grad). Started at $65/hour in a hard to hire area. My performance review was fairly good....manager is pretty demanding and he said I'm learning at an excellent pace and will be on track to become pharmacy manager in the near future. Our store is relative new (opened 2 years ago) and although our metrics and meeting corporate deadlines is excellent (top in our district and surrounding area), we did not meet corporate goals for growth. Due to the latter, my manager explained that neither of us received a raise. I'm beginning to consider renegotiating because I could have negotiated a higher rate ($67/hour) when I was first hired...due to the pharmacist demand in the area.

Walmart benefits aren't great....no vacation,sick time, personal time, or 401k until after the 1st year. I think I'm entitled to at least a pay raise.....to compensate me for my fast progress.

Any thoughts? I'm relatively new to the employment life....never had a full time job and I have slowly learned you have to negotiate for yourself!

 

[Momus]

I've been working at walmart for about half a year now (2013 grad). Started at $65/hour in a hard to hire area. My performance review was fairly good....manager is pretty demanding and he said I'm learning at an excellent pace and will be on track to become pharmacy manager in the near future. Our store is relative new (opened 2 years ago) and although our metrics and meeting corporate deadlines is excellent (top in our district and surrounding area), we did not meet corporate goals for growth. Due to the latter, my manager explained that neither of us received a raise. I'm beginning to consider renegotiating because I could have negotiated a higher rate ($67/hour) when I was first hired...due to the pharmacist demand in the area.

Walmart benefits aren't great....no vacation,sick time, personal time, or 401k until after the 1st year. I think I'm entitled to at least a pay raise.....to compensate me for my fast progress.

Any thoughts? I'm relatively new to the employment life....never had a full time job and I have slowly learned you have to negotiate for yourself!

Border town gives the highest hourly. I know personally from a WMT friend that moved from border town AZ; it's 72/hr for staff. He moved to a nicer area in CA and took a pay cut of $8 to $64/h. Hard to staff area outside of LA, SD, OC is around $65/hr and it goes down if you work in the city.

Never hurt to try but I am sure 95% they will say take what you have now or go find another job.

 

[inverness2012]

I haven't gotten a raise since I got out of training. We are getting "market based raises" this year.

 

[SoylentGreen]

I've been working at walmart for about half a year now (2013 grad). Started at $65/hour in a hard to hire area. My performance review was fairly good....manager is pretty demanding and he said I'm learning at an excellent pace and will be on track to become pharmacy manager in the near future. Our store is relative new (opened 2 years ago) and although our metrics and meeting corporate deadlines is excellent (top in our district and surrounding area), we did not meet corporate goals for growth. Due to the latter, my manager explained that neither of us received a raise. I'm beginning to consider renegotiating because I could have negotiated a higher rate ($67/hour) when I was first hired...due to the pharmacist demand in the area.

Walmart benefits aren't great....no vacation,sick time, personal time, or 401k until after the 1st year. I think I'm entitled to at least a pay raise.....to compensate me for my fast progress.

Any thoughts? I'm relatively new to the employment life....never had a full time job and I have slowly learned you have to negotiate for yourself!

That's just how it works at walmart - most of your evaluation is based on the store's metrics, most importantly profit compared to plan, and if you don't meet a percentage of the profit goals, no bonus and most likely no raise even if everything else is on track.

Mostly it has to do with how tough the profit goals are in a particular year. Last year they were unrealistic. The year before they weren't bad, and this year's aren't bad. Ask your manager what the goal is now for your store - they should know by now. That should give you a good idea of whether you should expect a raise and a bonus.

 

[confettiflyer]

4.2% last month "merit raise", inpatient outside of SF. COLA raise expected in a few months.

Redirecting more to savings and pretending the above didn't happen.