{"id":1429,"date":"2017-08-28T19:21:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T19:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2017-08-28T19:23:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T19:23:16","slug":"average-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/average-raise\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much of a Raise Do You Expect This Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-eight percent of workers expect either a 3% or 5% raise every year, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/all\/all-department\/121-how-much-of-a-salary-increase-do-you-expect-each-year\">ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\">Comparably<\/a>.\u00a0More than 5,000 workers in and out of the technology\u00a0industry were polled.<\/p>\n<p><b>The breakdown<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Thirty-six percent of people expect a 3% raise, 32% expect a 5% raise, and 14% of people expect no raise at all. Raises of 10% or more were the least common, with 13% of people saying they expect a 10% raise and 4% saying they expect 15% or more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1430\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/08\/raise.jpg\" alt=\"raise\" width=\"964\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/08\/raise-300x91.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/08\/raise-768x234.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/08\/raise.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The split among men and women was\u00a0mostly equal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/all\/all-department\/121-how-much-of-a-salary-increase-do-you-expect-each-year\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1431\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1431\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/08\/uhoh.jpg\" alt=\"uhoh\" width=\"736\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/08\/uhoh-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/08\/uhoh.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Snapshot by city<\/b><\/p>\n<p>While the most common answer in every city was either 3% or 5%, a significant percentage of workers in some notoriously expensive cities expected a salary of at least 10%. Those cities included San Francisco (27%), Los Angeles (23%), and New York (26%).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>San Francisco<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/other\/all-department\/121-how-much-of-a-salary-increase-do-you-expect-each-year\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1432 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/08\/SFC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/08\/SFC-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/08\/SFC.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 85vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Los Angeles<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/other\/all-department\/121-how-much-of-a-salary-increase-do-you-expect-each-year\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1433 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/08\/23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/08\/23-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/08\/23.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 85vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/other\/all-department\/121-how-much-of-a-salary-increase-do-you-expect-each-year\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-727\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/08\/266666.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/08\/266666-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/08\/266666.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 85vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-eight percent of workers expect either a 3% or 5% raise every year, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably.\u00a0More than 5,000 workers in and out of the technology\u00a0industry were polled. The breakdown Thirty-six percent of people expect a 3% raise, 32% expect a 5% raise, and 14% of people expect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/average-raise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,65],"tags":[39,73,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}