I just had my 3 month evaluation on the job. My boss told me in the beginning the hold up for the eval was because she had to have HR to approve it first. Finally, my eval was given and every thing was a go. Nothing really negative to speak of. On top of that, right in the middle of my training,the chick that was training me walked out one day without notice.
Okay, I am still waiting for the part where the boss is going to tell me I got a nice little raise, never came. Did I miss something? Is this practice common? To boot I took a pay cut to take this job and all the crap she likes to throw on you when she is in a bad mood. I am not sure if this is common practice or not. Someone, please enlighten me. And what was the deal with sending it to HR to approve. Approve what!
BTW, my spouse is not too happy about this, and keeps telling me to go back to the old job where I made a lot more money, but where I dealt with a bunch of female jerks.
I've never worked at a job that gave a raise at three months. The usual time frame is one year. Or perhaps, six months. At my first union job, it was number of hours worked, which coincided with time on the job. Since I have been in home health it has been whatever you can wrangle out of the employer, with the exception of the union home health job I held. They gave bonuses, pay raises after X number of hours worked, excellent benefits, you name it. But like several have said, these things should have been explained when you hired on. So ask about it and get everything cleared up.
At my old facility, you got $1000 for passing your boards(about $750 after taxes!) but no raise until about a year. Most places give raises yearly around evaluation time around here.
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Evaluations are done based on anniversary dates at my facility. Raises are given in July, to all nurses. We have a "cost of living/market adjustment" component and a performance-based component of the raise. It is not routine to get a raise after being on the job for 3 or even 6 months.
CritterLover, BSN, RN
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the only times i got a raise at a 3mo eval was when it coincided with obtaining my cna cert, and then (many years later) my rn.
yearly raises (at best) only for me.