Is My Pay Rise Expectation Unreasonable? (AAT Apprenticeship)
Hello! I'm stuck on if I am being unreasonable or not.
I have just finished my AAT Level 3 apprenticeship which has lasted 1.5 years with a salary of £15k. It is with a small (but very profitable) accountancy practice with less than 10 members. However, half the team left 6 months in and I had to take on most of their work and be thrown into the deep end meaning I learned a lot very quickly and have a large portfolio compared to people in similar positions.
I took over people's works with a combined salary of £50k+ with little recognition for working so hard to do multiple people's jobs with barely any training. I have now fully completed my qualification and contract and was just offered a pay rise to £20k.
My issue with this is that my contract is 37 hours and, if I was paid national living wage, I'd be paid £2300/annually. This means that I, an accountant extremely specialised for my company who took on way more than an apprentice should have, would be getting paid less than national living wage after passing my qualification top of my class and showing strong loyalty when the company was at risk of going under from lack of employees.
I would be taking on work my co-worker gets paid £27k to do (and has worked for 8 months now) so I believe I should get paid £25k - the average salary for a level 3 qualified accountant.
Am I in the wrong for expecting this pay rise?
I have just finished my AAT Level 3 apprenticeship which has lasted 1.5 years with a salary of £15k. It is with a small (but very profitable) accountancy practice with less than 10 members. However, half the team left 6 months in and I had to take on most of their work and be thrown into the deep end meaning I learned a lot very quickly and have a large portfolio compared to people in similar positions.
I took over people's works with a combined salary of £50k+ with little recognition for working so hard to do multiple people's jobs with barely any training. I have now fully completed my qualification and contract and was just offered a pay rise to £20k.
My issue with this is that my contract is 37 hours and, if I was paid national living wage, I'd be paid £2300/annually. This means that I, an accountant extremely specialised for my company who took on way more than an apprentice should have, would be getting paid less than national living wage after passing my qualification top of my class and showing strong loyalty when the company was at risk of going under from lack of employees.
I would be taking on work my co-worker gets paid £27k to do (and has worked for 8 months now) so I believe I should get paid £25k - the average salary for a level 3 qualified accountant.
Am I in the wrong for expecting this pay rise?
Yeah unless that’s a London salary I’d say that’s pretty unreasonable based on your qualifications. I am in a firm the same size of yours that does a combo of accounts & audit work. I have one ACA exam left and I’m on 26k with 5 years of work experience in audit & accounts for 37.25 hours. After level 4 my salary was £18k, so £20k nowadays seems pretty reasonable for level 4, level 3 the average is lower. In smaller firms it’s less about the work you do/level of responsibility salary wise, and more about the qualifications and years experience you’ve got, which is frustrating but just how it is. You could always look to move to a larger firm to get a pay boost.
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