Merit Raises & Reviews: 2023 Edition

[starmaster1000]

Searched the forums and found nothing.

My store started the conversations this week and I'm already hearing $0.04, $0.09, and other miserable bumps.

If you feel comfortable sharing, feel free.

 

[Cmoney1996]

As a TL I dread delivering these insulting raises to TMs I feel the minimum raise should be 1% just for existing and making it this long , and those recieve the middle score should get 2-3% and then top score at 4% for TMs

 

[Xanatos]

As a TL I dread delivering these insulting raises to TMs I feel the minimum raise should be 1% just for existing and making it this long , and those recieve the middle score should get 2-3% and then top score at 4% for TMs

That’s pretty much what it is already, it just gets prorated for TMs who got hired less than a year ago. 4% for top performers, 2% for middle, and I don’t know what the bottom one is because no one on my team got it. It was supposed to be 0%, but I saw a pic of someone getting .5%.

 

[Selfish]

It used to be 5% for DEO until Target got greedy and used the COVID bonuses as an excuse to drop it.

 

[NotCynicalYet]

This is the first time as a TL that I was left out of the "calibration" of team members, so when time comes to deliver I'll be going in blind and raw. 100% chance that HR gives another speech about they expect us to "own" these reviews. Definitely getting cynical. My own review will determine if I stay this time, no more accepting being called average.

 

[HInbound]

Rumors of a .3% at my store.

Yes, they're utter shite and wouldn't be surprised in the least.

 

[Dysprosed]

TL here, got 5% this year. I am pleased with it. Certainly more than I expected given company performance and macroeconomic factors.

 

[dcworker]

Did all team members get 2% bonus or is this just DC thing?

 

[Zxy123456]

I got 2%

 

[openmarket]

So, with inflation, a 2% raise is something like a 4% pay cut. I'm so excited.😑

 

[InboundDCguy]

Did all team members get 2% bonus or is this just DC thing?

That’s a DC thing and only applies to progression TMs who didn’t receive a raise during that fiscal year.

 

[NotCynicalYet]

The long-winded suggestions by Target of lies and comic half-truths we're supposed to tell our team members about their shitty raises are very insulting. Nobody on this planet likes being talked to in corpo-robo-tough-shit-you-suck language.

 

[rd123]

Is there a limit for DEO in a department?

 

[NotCynicalYet]

Is there a limit for DEO in a department?

It's more that there's a limit to the compensation that can be given out, not that there's a quota per se. It just works out as if there was a limit, since the store is going to spread out the raises among the departments somewhat, and people will be left out who shouldn't be. This is decided on the corporate side and your store doesn't have much control and certainly can't be as fair as they would like to be.

 

[gracefulfillment]

4% 🙏🙏

 

[Rarejem]

certainly can't be as fair as they would like to be.

should be, not would like to be

 

[jackandcat]

My raise sucked.

 

[redeye58]

Not as good as years past but still better than my previous SD.

 

[Ringwraith917]

4%. $0.69 raise. Been at Target 17 years. Now making $17.94/hr + vacation, healthcare, company match 401k (had to cut my contribution to 0 this year bc bills ). Approx 22hrs/wk

 

[GoForMe]

'Walking out the office after speaking with my manager about my 9-cent raise and how much they appreciate my work': Target worker says he got 0.5% raise

A Target employee went viral on TikTok after showing that their job only gave them a 0.05% raise, or a 9-cent raise.

www.dailydot.com

 

[happygoth]

'Walking out the office after speaking with my manager about my 9-cent raise and how much they appreciate my work': Target worker says he got 0.5% raise

A Target employee went viral on TikTok after showing that their job only gave them a 0.05% raise, or a 9-cent raise.

www.dailydot.com

It boggles my mind that we live in a world where Twitter and TikTok posts from strangers (with zero vetting) are deemed worthy of whole-ass "news" articles.

 

[qmosqueen]

'Walking out the office after speaking with my manager about my 9-cent raise and how much they appreciate my work': Target worker says he got 0.5% raise

A Target employee went viral on TikTok after showing that their job only gave them a 0.05% raise, or a 9-cent raise.

www.dailydot.com

I dream of $17.09. I’m still only at 15.60 after 10 years.

 

[gracefulfillment]

'Walking out the office after speaking with my manager about my 9-cent raise and how much they appreciate my work': Target worker says he got 0.5% raise

A Target employee went viral on TikTok after showing that their job only gave them a 0.05% raise, or a 9-cent raise.

www.dailydot.com

They got the bottom review, they were lucky to get anything... originally it was supposed to be 0% this year. I guess the question is why did they get the bottom review, Target's piss poor %'s for all tiers aside.

Also, the link's description has the decimal in the wrong place: 0.5 not 0.05

 

[animalcrossing]

I'm guessing this is because I was hired only 5 months ago but I got a 0.5% raise

 

[lucidtm]

I know a lot of TM's that got the 0.5% raise and they did NOT deserve it. It seems like at our store more people got that low % than usual.

Not everyone should get an outstanding increase, especially with poor performance, but there should be a base cost of living increase in addition to a performance increase, or at least make the performance part a bonus. Target should be ashamed and embarrassed of even the best raises that people have been getting because even those are too low.