{"id":82383,"date":"2021-03-15t11:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-15t15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/48e130086c.nxcli.net\/?p=82383"},"modified":"2021-04-19t22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20t02:50:08","slug":"employee-demands-a-raise-she-doesnt-deserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2021\/03\/15\/employee-demands-a-raise-she-doesnt-deserve\/","title":{"rendered":"employee demands a raise she doesn\u2019t deserve"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by ed mendlowitz<\/i>
\nthe 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 practice doctor<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

question:<\/strong> i have a longtime employee who asked me for a 33 percent salary increase, or she said she would have to explore options. how do you suggest i handle this?<\/p>\n

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additional information: she works five-hour days every day and is paid by the hour. she gives me no added time during tax season. she also gets paid for an extra six days \u2013 which is for half of the firm\u2019s allowed holidays \u2013 and for eight days for combined sick, vacation and personal days, and i pay her for half of her required cpe time (payment for 20 hours) and all the registration costs.
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\nin actuality, she gets paid for 260 five-hour days but works 226 days. i pay all required payroll taxes but do not pay her for medical insurance because her husband\u2019s plan covers her. i match 401k contributions up to 6 percent of salary, but she does not contribute anything to it. she does not give me any extra hours during tax season.<\/p>\n

there is added value for her because she had been with me three years and knows all my systems and the clients. she is good, and i don\u2019t find many errors when i review her work. she does not supervise or mentor anyone. i gave her 5 percent salary increases each of the last two years, and she asked for the increase when i told her about this year\u2019s 5 percent increase.<\/p>\n

answer:<\/strong> people who work part time usually get paid a little more per hour than full-time people doing comparable work because there are no benefits or extras. it seems that you are paying the extras, except for medical insurance. her salary rate per hour is actually 15 percent greater than the rate you are paying her because of the reduced hours she works. she works 226 days but gets paid for 260 days. also, her not supervising or mentoring anyone and being unavailable for added time during tax season puts a damper on her value.<\/p>\n

right now you have an employee who is getting work done for you. if your goal is to build a firm, then she is not going to help you with that, and that makes her less valuable. if your goal is to remain as you are, then she is helping maintain the status quo, and that has a limited value based on how high you can increase your fees to cover her cost, which doesn\u2019t seem probable. so this also makes her short-term.<\/p>\n

one other thing is that if she was worth the higher rate and by you not recognizing it earlier and paying it makes it seem like you were taking advantage of her. granting the increase now is a form of admission that you were underpaying her. it would also make her feel like a sap for not asking sooner.<\/p>\n

my advice is to do one of the following:<\/p>\n