Archived has anyone dealt with raises based off min wage increases?

[monkeyman90]

i didn't want to bring it up with hr since she kept saying she's waiting to hear back from her boss.

but i was above the raise, and i'm sure i'm making less than some new hires for lower pay grades. do you get to keep any of the raises?

 

[Nauzhror]

You get raises based on paygrade scaling, but not merit based raises.

ie. I made $7.97, min wage raised to $8.15, I now make $8.15 (as a cashier). I previously made $0.57 more than a brand new cashier would have. I now make the same, but if I had been a GSA making $7.97, I'd have been boosted to $8.65 since GSA is $0.50 over base pay.

 

[signing genie]

Are you sure you dont get merit pay because i got $3 for my promotion to signing and gsa is n07 and signing us n09 plus my etl hr says i got a merit raise plus the $1 raise and my year review raise

 

[Nauzhror]

Are you sure you dont get merit pay because i got $3 for my promotion to signing and gsa is n07 and signing us n09

That doesn't seem to at all be related to minimum wage.

The no merit raises meant that the wage hike is cut into those raises.

New payrate is the greater of the two following:

Current wage:

Base Pay + Paygrade increase.

ie. GSA's used to make base of $7.90 while cashiers made $7.40.

If we had a experienced GSA making $10.20 she'd have seen no raise when the min wage increased because her existing wage would have been higher than $8.15 (new cashier base) + $0.50.

Much the same any cashier who was already over $8.15 got no raise.

 

[signing genie]

O ok i thought i read it wrong but that sucks tho might as well quit then come back to get the raise.

 

[2nice2people]

Okay I'm dealing with this issue. I started as sales floor than went to electronics & got the .50 cent pay grade increase. About 4 months ago the MMB specialist transferred & without being asked I got the workload. I wasn't asked or given a choice. I asked if this was another pay grade (do I get raise) because my workload is HUGE now since I am main person. HR said no it's a lateral move. So basically someone working in a higher pay grade or the .50 bump is making almost what I am & I have 3 yrs & I'm in a bump up. This is bull. Do I fight the fact I wasn't given more or just accept the bigger workload because they eliminated specialist. HELP!

 

[eleuthreophile]

They eliminated specialist positions a number of years ago (AE10 maybe?). Because of that, it likely is a lateral move. It's not fair, but when is Target fair?

 

[Nauzhror]

O ok i thought i read it wrong but that sucks tho might as well quit then come back to get the raise.

That wouldn't get you a raise. You're not making less than a newly hired person, you still have your paygrade raises, it's only the yearly raises you have potentially lost.

 

[signing genie]

O ok i thought i read it wrong but that sucks tho might as well quit then come back to get the raise.

That wouldn't get you a raise. You're not making less than a newly hired person, you still have your paygrade raises, it's only the yearly raises you have potentially lost.

You right but i assumed the OP was in a higher paygrade making less than what another new hire in a lower paygrade made.