I am an engineer at a large, private engineering company (>4000 employees internationally). I have now been at the company for 2 years. I just had my yearly review, told that I had done everything right, saved the company tons of money by streamlining processes, I go out of my way to work on special projects, train new hires, etc. The worst thing they said was "you used to do x, which we brought up in your last review, and you seem to have totally worked on that and fixed it". They even said at the end "wow this was a really good review you've just done so well this year"
I asked for a promotion and they said they wanted to wait because they already have my yearly raise calculated, and they're not sure if they can get me any more money right now.
Then they gave me my merit raise - 3.25%
To make it worse, I work in Portland, where the cost of living is living is increasing at WAY more than 3%. Housing itself was increasing at 14% a year, im sure that number is greater now.
How should I approach this with my manager? I would think that I should get a much larger bump in compensation in this situation, but this is also my first "real" job and I'm not sure if I'm expecting too much.
Submitted March 31, 2017 at 11:34AM by ihad4biscuits http://ift.tt/2nHFTda
