Renegotiating your salary after acceptance of the offer is not to maim your relationship with your superior. This is a professional discussion needed to avoid whining, grunting, unhappiness or less productivity.

On the side of the employee, it is very disheartening to find out that you are paid less for working more despite your years of experience and qualification and how demotivating it is when there is a new employee with less experience than you but paid close to double of your present salary.

You need to stop this myth that "outstanding job performance alone would get you the large pay raise"; only if you have contended with the annual 3-5 percent raise, then you do not need to ask.

The following are the steps to take in negotiating for salary increment:

1) Learn to Negotiate: What is a farmer without the farming tools! You have the element of time to broaden and sharpen up the skills, practice makes perfect. Note: Negotiation can also decide your chances of having a successful career later in the company.

2) Personally, evaluate your Job: Determining the relative value or worth of your job role in comparison to other roles and your ACCOMPLISHMENT on the job is the key, your organization has a grading structure in place which can help you with this. N.B: Please, do not have this belief that because someone is sitting in an AC filled room doesn't mean his job role is of lesser value.

3) Create or Visualise a future (plan): This is where you think about what you need for the higher position, check yourself, draw the map to a place where your role in the organization won't be obsolete.

4) Schedule a meeting: Send an invite to the HR Manager (and your Supervisor) for a meeting, it is not necessary to dicuss the meeting agenda. The best time to negotiate a salary is always before you accept an offer and when renegotiating, the timing should be right. Don't ask for increment when your boss is on fire, the organization is not doing well or a month/two of an automatic increment.

5) DO NOT THREATEN: The purpose of the meeting is for them to see reason with you, it is a professional discussion, strategically lay out your point and listen to the other parties involved. Don't give the "i am so great, you should increase my salary" attitude and i repeat "DO NOT THREATEN".

6) Be prepare for a NO: You can't have it all, so they turned down your request? Kindly take responsibility of how poorly you handled the situation, be cordial, thank them and keep a positive attitude. If your request is granted, good for you, now you must work harder and do not go blabbing.

Asking for a salary increment is never an easy task. However, you will increase your chances of success if you time your renegotiation right, be prepared and focus on the value you (will) bring to your organization.