Archived Pay increase question

[dutifulTM]

I must be at an oddball store, seeing as it seems a lot of the people I know including myself got .25c+ raises...

 

[wageslave1138]

The last time I heard of $.25 raises I was working at McDonalds... in the 90s...

That is pathetic. Does Target really expect its employees to kill themselves for a quarter?

 

[RedisRad]

Man, it's crazy to see how low some of the raises are. I mean, yeah, some people don't deserve big raises because they're lazy and unreliable, but at three of the four companies I used to work for, I went from $7.80-8.25 in 6 months, $8-$9.45 over two years at the second and from $9.50-12 at the third in two years... Some companies have WAY more wiggle room to give raises. I quit right before my annual raise at another company I worked for, but I still suspect my raise would've been between .40 and .50... Gulp, this makes me scared for future raises with spot for sure.

 

[Barcode]

I went from 7.75 to ~8.65 in almost 4 years. That includes my GSA raise.

My performance reviews were never negative either.

 

[redeye58]

After more than 10 yrs with spot, my raises are basically chump change despite the fact I've gotten EX for every yr (except for the yr I got an O during my specialist tenure), I come in when called, I volunteer to help with projects/resets, my avail is wide open & I'm so global that I'm nicknamed the "Flo Ho".

 

[mxrbook]

I went from 7.75 to ~8.65 in almost 4 years. That includes my GSA raise.

My performance reviews were never negative either.

My pay went from $8 to $12.95 in the 1.5 years I've been here. I promoted from seasonal cashier to GSA to GSTL in that time. A lot of it has to do with the fact that our front end has had some major personnel changes in that time. When I started as cashier, we had 5 GSTLs and 4 GSAs. Of those 9, only two remain. Some transferred to other work centers, some quit, some asked to be demoted. We now have 4 GSTLs and 3.5 GSAs. It's been incredibly easy to promote because there are always so many openings. That's not necessarily a good thing. Good for me, but not so good for Spot.

 

[Starbucks]

Well, I'm "glad" to hear I'm not the only one with a crappy review. I got an 8 cent raise. I got about equal E's and IE's on my performance review. >_>

It kills me because they were grading me on things that really don't apply to me, since I work in Starbucks. I have little to no control over a lot of the things that they apparently base the score off of.

I'm a hard worker and I'm good at my job, and I know it. I'm trying not to be discouraged by this score, but it's tough.

 

[Barcode]

After more than 10 yrs with spot, my raises are basically chump change despite the fact I've gotten EX for every yr (except for the yr I got an O during my specialist tenure), I come in when called, I volunteer to help with projects/resets, my avail is wide open & I'm so global that I'm nicknamed the "Flo Ho".

Yup and I bet you got to see minimum wage go up a few times and didn't benefit too?

I know I did...

 

[Determinism]

Mine we nt from 9 to 10 in the last year ive been here. Im on bench for SFT. Another increase eventually.

 

[Barcode]

I went from 7.75 to ~8.65 in almost 4 years. That includes my GSA raise.

My performance reviews were never negative either.

My pay went from $8 to $12.95 in the 1.5 years I've been here. I promoted from seasonal cashier to GSA to GSTL in that time. A lot of it has to do with the fact that our front end has had some major personnel changes in that time. When I started as cashier, we had 5 GSTLs and 4 GSAs. Of those 9, only two remain. Some transferred to other work centers, some quit, some asked to be demoted. We now have 4 GSTLs and 3.5 GSAs. It's been incredibly easy to promote because there are always so many openings. That's not necessarily a good thing. Good for me, but not so good for Spot.

$12.95 isn't even that good either.

I make between $15-20/hr delivering pizza rofl.

 

[mxrbook]

I went from 7.75 to ~8.65 in almost 4 years. That includes my GSA raise.

My performance reviews were never negative either.

My pay went from $8 to $12.95 in the 1.5 years I've been here. I promoted from seasonal cashier to GSA to GSTL in that time. A lot of it has to do with the fact that our front end has had some major personnel changes in that time. When I started as cashier, we had 5 GSTLs and 4 GSAs. Of those 9, only two remain. Some transferred to other work centers, some quit, some asked to be demoted. We now have 4 GSTLs and 3.5 GSAs. It's been incredibly easy to promote because there are always so many openings. That's not necessarily a good thing. Good for me, but not so good for Spot.

$12.95 isn't even that good either.

I make between $15-20/hr delivering pizza rofl.

Delivering pizza? That's $32k a year on the low end! Oh, wait you probably don't get 40 hours a week delivering pizza, do you? What happened to the $25/hour IT job? And I never said it was good pay. But you have to admit that it's quite a good increase in 18 months. No, I guess YOU don't, but then most reasonable people would say that's a pretty good increase.

BTW, if you made such fabulous money delivering pizza and immediately got such a fabulous job in IT, why did you work for so many years at Target? Was it because you look so good in RED or because you're a martyr or what? rofl

 

[Barcode]

I went from 7.75 to ~8.65 in almost 4 years. That includes my GSA raise.

My performance reviews were never negative either.

My pay went from $8 to $12.95 in the 1.5 years I've been here. I promoted from seasonal cashier to GSA to GSTL in that time. A lot of it has to do with the fact that our front end has had some major personnel changes in that time. When I started as cashier, we had 5 GSTLs and 4 GSAs. Of those 9, only two remain. Some transferred to other work centers, some quit, some asked to be demoted. We now have 4 GSTLs and 3.5 GSAs. It's been incredibly easy to promote because there are always so many openings. That's not necessarily a good thing. Good for me, but not so good for Spot.

$12.95 isn't even that good either.

I make between $15-20/hr delivering pizza rofl.

Delivering pizza? That's $32k a year on the low end! Oh, wait you probably don't get 40 hours a week delivering pizza, do you? What happened to the $25/hour IT job? And I never said it was good pay. But you have to admit that it's quite a good increase in 18 months. No, I guess YOU don't, but then most reasonable people would say that's a pretty good increase.

BTW, if you made such fabulous money delivering pizza and immediately got such a fabulous job in IT, why did you work for so many years at Target? Was it because you look so good in RED or because you're a martyr or what? rofl

I do both. Believe it or not, pizza delivery is a great side job. My manager schedules me on a week to week basis and asks me when I can work.

Don't be jelly


Edit: I actually wouldn't say your increase is that good at all considering you basically sold your soul to spot.

 

[mxrbook]

I love my job. Spot doesn't own me. I can walk any time and live quite nicely, thank you very much. But you still haven't answered my question. If life is so glorious for you, delivering pizza and making fabulous money at your IT job, why did you hang around Target so long?

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

Sometimes, you have to wait for the right job offer.

 

[Retail Girl]

I got an EX, which worked out to a 4.1% raise. Sure, the actual number isn't great, but the percentage is pretty good, period. It's not like I can expect a 10% raise or something. Some of the stuff made me want to giggle when he was going over the review, but it was fine. After no raises at the pizza place in 3 1/2 years, two raises in less than a year isn't too bad (I realize I won't see another one for another year, but whatever).

 

[Wickedwife42]

Got TL promo a while back only .75- told I had to meet "requirements" to get other $1 or so. Anyone know those requirements...

 

[Hardlinesmaster]

Take it! It depends on review, o is stellar.