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Discussion on: Asking for a raise seven months into a job?

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Tajh Taylor

As the saying goes, a closed mouth does not get fed. You should not wait to bring the matter up in discussions with your managers. It's easy for a manager in an environment like the one you describe to let important but not necessarily urgent matters go unaddressed. You may not get the raise right away – they may wait until you've been there a year (or at all, to be honest), but it never hurts to have your managers know exactly what your expectations are. Your managers should also be clarifying what their expectations are of you, and if these responsibilities have been added to your plate without also clarifying the expectation changes, then that's something they should be clearing up. And keep in mind – not every factor controlling salary increases is in the immediate control of your managers, so maybe they'll be able to immediately respond in the way you would like and maybe they won't. But by setting the tone for clarify, they should step up to respond in kind.