Salary review

Salaries may be reviewed for a number of reasons:

Individual ad-hoc reviews

• To correct errors at recruitment
• To reflect promotion or re-grading of post

Adjustments to pay scales

• to correct anomalies
• to bring in line with other organisations

Annual increments

• fixed, automatic or performance related?
• but for how many years?

Cost of living

• especially important where this high inflation in payment currency
• same percentage for all?
• challenge of assessing

Risks include:

• Reviewing salaries too often and thereby raising expectations of equally regular reviews in future especially if each review results in increases.
• Reviewing salaries too infrequently and thereby creating resentment, especially if team members feel the salaries are unjust.