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Raise conversations fail for one predictable reason: the request arrives as a feeling instead of a file. This guide walks the four weeks before the meeting — gathering written achievements with numbers, running your salary against market data, picking your ask and your alternative, and rehearsing the conversation including the silences. You will also get the two questions that protect you when the answer is no, because a no with conditions and a date is a win you can bank.
A raise is won before the meeting — in the four weeks of evidence you gather. This guide gives you the exact preparation sequence and the meeting script.
Four to eight weeks before budgets are locked — usually one to two quarters before the annual review cycle. Asking after budgets are set means waiting a full year for the answer to matter.
Ask the two follow-ups: 'What would make this possible by [date]?' and 'What should I achieve by then?' A conditional yes with a review date is worth more than a flat no with nothing to aim at.
Only if you genuinely have one and would take it. A real offer accelerates decisions; a bluff one poisons trust and can end with you staying at a job that now knows you are looking.
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