If your employer has a collective bargaining agreement, you have the right to an annual salary dialogue. In other cases, the right to salary dialogues may be regulated in your employment contract.
If you prepare properly for your dialogue, there is a greater chance that you will get the salary increase you want. Here are some suggestions of what to think about ahead of your salary dialogue.
Before your salary dialogue, it is important that you prepare so that you can be specific and provide good arguments. The key factors are your work and results during the year and how your performance and goal fulfilment correspond to the salary criteria in the workplace.
Hand on heart before your salary dialogue: Are you doing a good job? Does your boss know? Have you prepared thoroughly?
Salary agreements differ between different collective bargaining agreement areas. But what they have in common is that they give you the right to an annual salary dialogue, and they also set the framework for salary setting at the workplace.
Basic principles set out in the salary agreements include: