加工资之我见

悉尼浪子

Just saw a topic about pay raise on Oursteps and want to share my opinion about getting a pay raise.

It has been on the news in the past two years that the wage growth has been frustratingly slow for quite a few years in Australia or even globally.

In Australia, we have not had a recession for 27 consecutive years, the budget is now in surplus and the unemployment rate is low. But the wages are not growing.

In the US, the unemployment rate has been at or below 4.5% for 16 straight months, the stock market just had a strong rally recently, which indicates that the US corporates have a bright prospects in the near future, neither has translated to strong wage growth.

A variety of explanations have been proposed for this unusual economical phenomenon.

A traditional view is that the productivity growth rate has been relatively slow. In economics, the increased productivity leads to wage increase. When the productivity is not improving, neither will the wages. This argument make sense to me.

Another view is that the inflation is relatively low and for some, the pay raise is pegged to the inflation. This proposition is somewhat problematic. If low inflation leads to low wage growth, and then low wage growth will again lead to low inflation, how do you break the cycle?

I am not an economist (even they can’t come up with uniformed explanations as to why wages growth has been sluggish) and I have no interest in explaining why something has happened to the public at large.

For me, I am much more interested in how I can improve my earning capabilities.

In my opinion, the only way you can dramatically increase your earnings is to continuously improve your knowledge and skills and then by changing jobs to be able to show and use your newly gained knowledge and skills.

As a Chinese saying goes, frequent shifts make a tree dying but a man prospering, good luck and best wishes to everyone who is currently actively looking for a new position.

fishraiser

楼主的英文顶呱呱，想请教一下经验；望不啬赐教

katherman

提高技能是一方面，能影响你最多能涨多少。但我觉得涨工资从实战角度而言最重要的是需要提前和你的经理说你有这个期望，方便布局。以及用自然和让人信服的方式说明你值这个价

悉尼浪子

katherman 发表于 2019-4-14 08:38
提高技能是一方面，能影响你最多能涨多少。但我觉得涨工资从实战角度而言最重要的是需要提前和你的经理说你 ...

Good Point

netman

所属行业是否在快速增长，公司经营是否在快速增长，看清这两个问题就好了。要么学习新知识换行业，要么抓紧换公司。