The rising cost of living is causing problems for employees in Germany: According to a survey, one in three employees can no longer make ends meet on their own salary. Employees with a net income of less than 2000 euros are particularly affected, as the job site Indeed announced. Their survey results were available to AFP on Thursday. 1000 employees were surveyed.
Accordingly, for 47 percent of those surveyed, a move to a better-paid position is an option. If you don’t want to change jobs, the salary negotiation remains: more than half of the survey participants (55 percent) want to demand a wage increase due to the high inflation. Five percent have already taken this step, only just under a third of those surveyed do not want to negotiate a higher wage despite the high inflation rate.
Often no compensation for inflation from employers
Almost half of those in employment would therefore find a salary increase of six to ten percent to be appropriate. Almost one in four would even demand a wage increase of eleven to 15 percent.
When talking to their boss, 54 percent of employees would justify the wage demand with the current high level of inflation, while 43 percent would refer to their own performance. 28 percent would also argue with their own work experience. An increasing workload (24 percent) and the shortage of skilled workers (22 percent) would also be used as arguments by employees.
According to the survey, most employers have not yet compensated for inflation: in 70 percent of the cases there have been no salary increases so far. Wages were only increased in eleven percent of the companies, and there was a special payment in ten percent.
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