Some 39% of employers often hand out promotions without a pay raise, up from 22% in 2011, according to a recent survey of 300 employers by the staffing firm OfficeTeam. Some only raise pay once a year. One female executive she advised received a big promotion to head a major project, without a raise to match. “I wore myself out doing two jobs with no pay raise, no extra privileges, not even a nice letter in my permanent record,” he says. When pressured later to do it again, he says, he told his supervisor, “not without a pay raise,” and resigned.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 22, 2018 13:31 UTC