Pay rise/cost of living increase

Re: Pay rise/cost of living increase

FINNIGAN — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:42:26 GMT

we get payrise every april, although ive had a rise each time ive passed a qualification, smll practice too

Re: Pay rise/cost of living increase

Shane — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:02:16 GMT

I believe that is the popular consensus amongst the employees.

Re: Pay rise/cost of living increase

Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:27:52 GMT

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Did they give a reason? Is the practice taking on more staff/investing in equipment/losing clients???

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Its a large group, making money, gaining clients. Was just a standard letter sayng "Due to economic climate...."

It's a SA group, and apparently a few years ago Foot and Mouth was blamed....don't see the relation with that though... small animals and foot and mouth??

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sounds to me like they are taking the piss a little.

Re: Pay rise/cost of living increase

Shane — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:26:34 GMT

[quote user="Gillian Mostyn"]

Did they give a reason? Is the practice taking on more staff/investing in equipment/losing clients???

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Its a large group, making money, gaining clients. Was just a standard letter sayng "Due to economic climate...."

It's a SA group, and apparently a few years ago Foot and Mouth was blamed....don't see the relation with that though... small animals and foot and mouth??

Re: Pay rise/cost of living increase

Vicky RVN — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:09:00 GMT

At both my previous place of work and where i work now i've had an annual pay increase, and they are small companies.

Re: Pay rise/cost of living increase

Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:06:55 GMT

Ohhhh I will keeping that little gem of info Gillian

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Katy — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:00:48 GMT

Btw Gillian, you sound like a very nice boss!

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Katy — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:57:49 GMT

Ooh well boss has put up some of the prices today as his accountant recommended it, lol.

The practice is doing pretty well and he is in the middle of opening up another practice too!

I am really hoping we do get a pay rise, as all the bills are going up, but my wages aren't.

I'm still dabbling on the job sites at the moment

Re: Pay rise/cost of living increase

Gillian Mostyn — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:42:47 GMT

Did they give a reason? Is the practice taking on more staff/investing in equipment/losing clients???

Re: Pay rise/cost of living increase

Shane — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:41:11 GMT

I work for a large independant veterinary group that has had price increases 4 times in the past year and then sent out a standardised letter saying pay review was done and no-one is getting pay increase, inflation linked or anything.

Re: Pay rise/cost of living increase

Gillian Mostyn — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:29:18 GMT

Hmm - this will probably cause me to be the least popular boss ever amongst my peers - but here goes....

Does your practice put up its fees? Annually? Biannually? That will be in line with inflation - as should be the case. Unless your boss gives you a payrise annually, at least in line with inflation, then he will make more profit year on year.......(assuming the practice isn't struggling). In other words, he will be getting a payrise but noone else! Admittedly inflation this year was low (about 2%) but you should be getting that at the least.

If the fees go up every year, so should your income. Otherwise, you are effectively getting a pay drop!

I have every sympathy - obviously can't complain about the wages I was on, compared to nurses, but saw only 2 pay rises in the 5 years I worked for a practice. And that was better than the nurses saw.

Without a union both vets and VNs are at the liberty of their boss. But a good time to mention it would be at the same time as a fees increase...they will struggle to justify not giving you a rise!!!!

Re: Pay rise/cost of living increase

nicky shoult — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:02:46 GMT

Hi Katy

Ive moved practices 2 years ago and so far have had a pay rise each year, but this is with a big company.

The practice prior to this one was awful re pay rise and it was actually stated in our contract that annual pay rise were at the partners discretion so hence hardly ever happened unless you took on a stupid amount of extra work!

The one before that we used to get at the very least the cost of inflation as our pay rise so would only be a few pence- but all helped!

Its very much an individual practice thing- but possibly the bigger the company, the more chance of getting one??

nicky