Year End Bonuses and Raises! Received Performance Review for 2016 and it was identical to the 2015 Review.
I will start off by saying I am moving teams within the company and that is causing some ill will from my current manager/director.
This review, however, was written before I gave word that I would like to move teams.I have done many things this year that were above and beyond my current title/pay. I am listed as a Senior Analyst yet I was the manager of multiple people all year and managed multiple client relationships. I created the pricing structure for a client whose revenue immediately jumped 30% when implemented and has grown over 60% YTD (mostly due to an increase of work). Even with the workload doubling, I was able to create efficiencies that allowed the hours spent on the client to remain the same. I was also one of two people who were not at the management level in my company to be selected to present at a conference that was hosted by our company. Despite all these accomplishments, management was not interested in promoting me anytime in the near future or raising my salary besides the standard cost of living/inflation increase (much of the reason why I am switching teams).
It's hard for me to hear from other employees who have a similar title and display similar performance to receive MID-YEAR performance bonuses of $5,000 along with what will be a hefty year raise/bonus. When I received my performance review for 2016, it seemed very familiar from 2015. I went home that night and pulled my 2015 review from the file. After reviewing both documents, they were identical outside of one sentence. My manager didn't even update the date on the top of the review.
I am awaiting the final raises/bonuses and am trying to prepare to confront my director if the raise/bonus isn't on par with the work I actually completed for the year. Do you think I have a case to confront my manager about the performance review? Is it even worth trying to fight for a raise/bonus even if I am moving teams? All feedback and help would be appreciated
Hi Michael: I definitely think you should bring this up to your manager, especially because you have concrete evidence that there was NO difference between your yearly reviews, apart from one sentence. That's a poor excuse for a performance review, and you have every right to bring it up (otherwise, how else can you grow as an employee?).
Yes bring it up wiith current manager as managers talk and they discuss pay and performances. You want to gef things rolling so when you move teams you will be in the right mind set and professional pay range. I was a manager for almost 6 years and Ive also had to present to my manager documented proposal of why I should receive a raise and I got it.