If you think it is wrong
How you would find out, who decides, what raising it costs, and what doing nothing costs instead.
How would I even find out where I stand?
The law where you areWho decides it if I push?
The law where you areWhat does raising it cost me?
Only what happensWhat happens to the relationship afterwards?
Four questions a person in this position actually asks. One of them has no answer anybody can give in advance, and nothing here fills a blank with a guess. This is the section that will not tell you whether to do it.
How You Would Even Find Out
Five of the six questions about where you stand can be answered this month, and the sixth cannot be answered by anybody in advance.
Asking Them Directly
The cheapest step is a question, and a question about administration gets answered where a challenge gets escalated.
Getting Advice That Is Worth Something
An hour with somebody qualified is cheap if you arrive prepared, and most of its value is destroyed by arriving without your own material.
Who Decides If You Push
Several bodies may form a view about the same arrangement, each on its own test and for its own purpose, and nothing obliges them to agree.
What Raising It Costs
The money is rarely the main cost: raising it formally usually changes the working relationship, and the relationship rarely changes back.
What Doing Nothing Costs
Choosing to leave the position alone is a real decision with a real price, and the price is payable in the months when something goes wrong.
What This Collection Cannot Tell You
Fifty notes can say where to look and what to ask; what you are, and what you are owed, belongs to somebody qualified where you work.