6 Tips to Negotiate a Salary Hike With your Employer

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Negotiating salary hike with your employer can be a tricky job; you have to maintain the professional boundaries and follow certain etiquette. Here are 6 ways to negotiate salary hike with your employer.

1. Follow a professional approach

You cannot start a conversation regarding your salary hike randomly whenever you get a chance. A professional approach would be to ask at a specific time from your employer and set a small meeting in order to discuss things. This will show that you know the importance of the situation, and you would come across as a respectful and professional person.

2. Get noticed

Your work should speak for you, be dedicated and show that you are really hard working. Your results should be satisfactory so that you can confidently ask for a hike without any hesitation. If your employer is well aware of your progress and hard work he would definitely consider the salary hike.

3. Maintain good relations

Along with a good progress report you should have good communication skills and interaction with your employer. Maintain good relations with your employer; show him that he is very important and that you hold a lot of respect for him. Get noticed for your work as well as for your personality. Then it becomes much easier to talk about the hike since you have good relations with your employer.

4. Be reasonable

Everyone expects salary hikes; we put in a lot of efforts and hard work so that we can demand these hikes. But we should remember that while approaching the employer regarding the hike our demand shouldn’t be shocking and unreasonable. Do a market research and get a tentative idea about the pay of other employees that work at the same level.

5. Do not mention the figure

If you have considered all the points and have arranged for a meeting with your employer regarding the salary hike, let him know that you would want a hike in your salary, but do not state a fixed amount. Do not show that you have already decided on a particular amount and are now coming for its approval. Ask how much hike you can get, and then tell what you feel about it.

6. Don’t be pushy and rigid

Negotiating salary hike is a tricky situation, do not be very pushy and forceful regarding this topic. Give time to your employer and be patient once you have given him the idea. Be flexible about the hike and don’t be very rigid and unhappy.