TIL: Dry Promotions. Your story of being promoted without any pay raise?

I'll go first

Company I was with during Covid times, with no increment for 2 years. I had been good at work, so the VP Sales (my boss's boss) decided to make me the Single Point of Contact for Pan country new partnerships. I was handling only one of the regions at that point.

I was surprised and elated. Pinged my boss to discuss this promotion (and possible money 🤑)

He said, you'll get the money once (if) you perform in the role.

If you had questions about my abilities, why did you promote me in the first place?

I had gotten 3% hike for a promotion. Felt humiliated.

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Got promoted with less than inflation rate hike, feels like a joke when company is earning billions yet can’t even give decent hikes nowadays

Got promoted to head of engineering without a pay lol