Her workload has more than tripled since 2020. Her salary hasn’t.
She raised the issue of a raise with HR in early 2022. “They said they would get back to me,” she recalls. “That didn’t happen. When I followed up during my appraisal, they said they were still reviewing budgets.”
Two years on, her pay remains unchanged—even as the company moved into new offices, hired more staff, and sent three senior colleagues to a conference in Dubai.
“I’m not asking for magic,” Gracy says. “Just a raise that reflects how much I now do.”