Games, Ideas and Activities for Primary Outdoor Learning, 2nd Edition

Chapter 15

Requesting a pay rise

Whilst the majority of cover letters you write will be related to your hunt for a new job, there will be times when you need to write to try to improve upon the conditions of your current employment.

The two principal scenarios are:

• you want to request a pay rise, and
• you want to request a promotion.

First, we’re going to deal with how to successfully handle a request for a pay rise. We’ll come to handling a request for a promotion in the next part of the book.

Requesting a pay rise

If you’re happy in your current role and the only reason you would want to change jobs is that you feel you should be paid more, your first step should always be to address this issue with your current employer. There is every chance ...