Employee motivation: Staff won’t ask for pay rises despite growing gap between employee and executive pay

Date: 02/09/2011

Employees in the UK are reluctant to ask for a pay rise a new survey has found, despite the pay gap between staff and bosses rising.

The Dare not ask survey carried out by Scottish Widows found that 24 per cent of employees have never asked for a pay rise even though 43 per cent of them are not happy with their salary.

In the mean time research by PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts salaries earned by executives in the FTSE 350 companies will increase at a much quicker rate than that of their staff in the next 12 months.

In the survey Scottish Widows also found that men are far more likely to ask for a pay rise at 28 per cent compared to 18 per cent of women.

Of the people who have not asked for a pay rise, 27 per cent said it was because they thought they were already fairly paid.

Catherine Stewart, savings expert at Scottish Widows, said: “The nation is split when it comes to talking about their salary, as it’s a sensitive topic.”
 

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