How To Approach Your Boss For A Raise (Salary)

If your friend has proved herself worthy, i mean if the last six months is justified, she should mention the amount she wants and her baggaining power should be high.

Ask for a raise only when indispensable otherwise you will be asking for a sack

your very right kajad

you might want to write an application for salary increase.

I did that before for a former job, actually took a risk. I wrote my application for salary increase and mailed it to my boss. He mails be back asking me why i wrote the letter blah blah blah, and I mail back that "i really believe that i deserve an increase, besides ive saved the company from a lot of losses blah blah blah, and besides, im getting better offers from other companies even tho i never applied".

So he mails back and said, if im getting better offers, what am i waiting for?, so i mail him back again, with my email title as "intent to quit, " and one of the reasons in the mail was the fact that i asked for a raise, for which he was not disposed to approve, and that I loved my job and the company(which made me to apply for a raise in the first place, rather than accept other offers), and that since he wasnt disposed to give me a raise, im left with no choice to accept a pending offer, from a competitor in the same line of business,

The truth was i had no offer on hand, but i just wanted to live on the edge for a while(sometimes, your heart just hardens like a stone). Two days later, the accountant mailed me back with new details about the increase. yahoooooooooooooooo!  got a raise.

twas a risk, it worked for me, tmight not for u!!!

A Raise is something you never get unless you ask for it! _{or rarely} ^{command it.}
The coy is there to make money you are there to collect money.(conflict in intrest rit?)
it does not usual get to choosing between sack - raise -resign.
If your friend  is worth it the Coy would afford it or a new Coy would.
so what am i saying you need to prepare to back
why ? you deserve it and what are your factsas well as indirectly the effect of  you not getting a raise.

also see the following links:
http://www.askmen.com/money/career_100/104b_career.html
http://money.cnn.com/2003/11/07/pf/negotiate_raise/
http://www.ehow.com/tips_1022.html
http://www.ahealthyadvantage.com/topic/askraise
Good luck

Was the amount mention intially or and idea given?
Its harder to deal with a one -biz thingy.i suggest if it was stated ask and make refences to the intial deal.
hold you fact .
if no amount was mentioned don't be the 1st to give afigure ask how much they r willing to add.then if it does fit negotiate a higher one.
And please don't attach personal reasons to why you need a raise.Make it as professional as posible.
_{It worked in my formal employment so i know.assuming you're here in Nigeria}

IMHO,

The way you present yourself at work determines a whole lot about your salary range and raise.  I speak from an American perspective.  I don't know where the original author of the question is.

From my experience, if you present yourself to oyibo as desperate ("i'll do anything for the team", "team player", etc), na so them go dey treat you.  They will think they can toy with you as if you do gra gra, and them fire you, you no get choice.  On the other hand, if like me, you treat your job like a job (in other words, you can always go somewhere else anytime, even if you no get kobo for account  ), they respect you more and before you know it, na them go dey approach you for raise, bonus, etc.  Again, I speak from experience.  I have been on both sides of the fence, so I think I know what I am talking about.

, and that's my 2 cents

It depends on your progress and the progress of the company. If the company is not hiring any new person while their income grows, then u might be confortable enough to ask for a raise. But if the company is not making progress, u better not ask especially when there are other people waiting to take your job

Thanks diyobdw, the links are very helpful.
i am in the same shoe with you, now i need to know what Nigerian Universities pay Master holder with about 6 years experience. Also, maybe the Private Universities ( Covenant, Redeemers, Bells and so on)

Please, share this information with me.
Thank you

I want to have a clue of what lecturers in Nigeria earn, especially those in their earlier career. Master's holders + 5 years experience