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Dry promotions: Definition, considerations, and guidelines for employers

BMT Office Administration

Getting a promotion is an exciting event for employees. However, some of that excitement is probably due to the pay raise that they expect will come with the promotion. But sometimes employers offer promotions without an increase in pay, a growing phenomenon called dry promotions. What is a dry promotion?

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Hitting the salary cap

Practically Perfect PA

Everyone was placed in a salary band depending on their experience and their skills. Except support staff who were placed in lower salary bands or slotted in somewhere that sort of fitted what they did. I was placed in a low (not rock bottom but not particularly high) salary band with other assistants and admin type people.

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How to Ask for More Money (and Get It)

Success

I won’t say those factors have no influence, but they’re neither limitations nor absolutes in dictating your salary. Teenage millionaire founders, college dropouts with six-figure salaries and company newcomers who bypass the corporate ladder and leap to leadership positions are all evidence of that.

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5 Questions to Ask in Your Job Interview

On The Job

They hear some general idea about what they'll be doing, their salary and company benefits and don't ask any questions. No chance for promotion. If he or she got a promotion, great! Are there formal reviews? As long as there isn't a big red flag, they'll accept the job if it meets their needs. There's high turnover.

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Workplace Happiness Is at an All-Time High—But There’s Still Room for Improvement

Success

The key findings reveal answers, including that people’s “experience of work” indicators—including “work/life balance, workload and performance review processes”—are major reasons they are satisfied in their workplaces or not. His starting salary was significantly more than I was making after a number of years with the organization.”

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How do assistants get promoted?

Practically Perfect PA

Having worked in that position for a few years I was promoted to Account Manager and then a few years later made redundant. Well as you can see over a ten year period technically I have only ever been promoted once from the position of administrator / assistant into another and different type of role. Be invaluable. Unfair but true.

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Experts Predict 2023 Will Be the Year of ‘Quiet Hiring’—Here’s What to Expect

Success

This can lead to raises and promotions for those overachievers, and less of a cost burden on the company to onboard a new team member. But it depends on how the company goes about it, and if they are compensated for additional tasks or just expected to do more for the same salary. How do employees feel about quiet hiring?

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