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How to Ask for a Raise

Your manager almost certainly cannot approve this on their own. There is a band, a budget round that closed before anyone mentioned it, and usually someone who has never watched you work — so the case gets repeated in a room you are not in. That is the whole design problem, and it is why “I’d like to talk about my salary” returns the smallest increment available. You get the message that books the meeting, the case in the order to say it, and the answers to the four things they say back.

Sample raise script

Generated for: Operations coordinator who has covered a second site since a colleague left, asking off-cycle before the October budget year opens

The message that books it — Subject: Quick meeting about my compensation

The real one is built on your job title, what changed since your salary was set, and what you actually want out of the meeting. The first one is free — no card. After that, $9.99 for a single credit or $49.99 for ten.

First one is free — no card needed.

Credits

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Your Job Title *

How Long You’ve Been in the Role (optional)

What’s Behind the Ask *

This mostly decides the timing, which matters more than the wording. If a review is coming up, the ask belongs before it — by the time the invite lands the number is usually already allocated. If the job has grown, the argument is that the role changed and the price didn’t, which is the strongest ordinary case there is. If you hold another offer, read that branch before you use it: it cannot be taken back.

What You Want Out of the Meeting *

The script ends on whatever you pick here. An open-ended pay conversation reliably returns the smallest defensible increment, because nothing in the room obliges more. A written path with a date is the right ask when the budget window has already closed — and “we’ll revisit it” with no date attached is a no. Not sure? That branch lays the four out and says which one your situation supports.

What You Have to Work With — and Anything to Keep Out (optional)

Three things carry the whole case. What the job was when the number was set, and what it is now— salary is priced against a role, so the argument is that the role changed and the price didn’t. One or two outcomes with a number in them, in the unit your business actually counts: covers, calls, cases, tickets, accounts, hours saved, spend avoided. Almost every job counts something and almost nobody thinks to say it. And anything you already know about how pay works here— when the budget year starts, whether there are bands, who signs it off — because timing beats wording. We never invent a salary, a percentage, a benchmark or an achievement: if it is not in this box it comes back as a bracketed placeholder telling you what to put there. Refer to people by role, no names, and nothing you’d rather not have forwarded.

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Salary Negotiation Script →“What’s Your Current Salary?” Answer →Resignation Letter →