Real Raise

This Year, Read This’

Just a few of these could earn you an extra $100,000

There are secrets to getting a raise that most people don’t know. I’ll tell you my students’ favorite in a minute.

Your boss isn’t going to share them with you. He probably doesn’t even know them himself. If your co-workers know any of them, you will be one of the last people they tell. Just a few of these secrets could earn you an extra $500,000 over the course of your career.

Ironically, they are not even that difficult to master. The payoff is usually huge and immediate. The skills you will learn with Real Raise will bring thousands of extra dollars in your pocket every year, year after year.

Earn $100 / hour learning valuable skills…

My students tell me the time they spend learning these methods ends up being worth over $200 per hour. Those are the kinds of raises they are getting.

And that’s just the first year. The benefits compound over time.

You’d probably like to hear some of the secrets. Let’s start with the one about annual salary reviews.

Your company probably has an annual salary review and performance appraisal. Yours may happen at 3 months or 6 months if you are new, for most companies it is once a year.

This is that special time where your company sits you down and tells you what they like and don’t like about you and your work and tells you what your raise is for the next year. For most of us it’s high stress.

A Favorite Secret – The Care Free Annual Review

We are told this is where the raises happen. If we bring up the subject of raises during other times, we are usually told: ‘Wait for your review to bring this up…’. The Human Resources ( HR or ‘Personnel’) Department can confirm this. Company policy is ‘Wait around for your annual review…’. Sadly, this is some of the ‘conventional advice’ that floats around on how to get raises.

So, in an effort to be a ‘good employee’, we bite the bullet and wait around for the appointed day.

Knowing what happened last year ( a raise that barely covered inflation plus a meager bonus that paid for half of a long weekend vacation ), some of us prepared for a showdown with the boss. We gathered, prepared and documented evidence on how much our raise should be and why we deserved it.

Despite preparation, our efforts went nowhere. We were blown off by some lame excuse and sent back to our desks, frustrated.