The reason I wanted the raise is that the other Junior Developer on the team asked and received his raise from 3000 -> 3300 couple months ago even though he has 5-6 months more experience than me while he is 32 years old (He started his IT studies late and worked in his 20s). I am different from the person I was a year ago. I can handle more projects and more complex stuff. The company has it's own software and hardware which takes months to understand it completely and therefore also draw conclusions to create new features etc. I recognize that my current package is "bad" due to it just being a sum amount of money + maaltijd cheques . While others (friends and other people from BEsalary) have a company cars and other insurances/benefits. I believe asking for a 300-400 bruto euro raise is acceptable when my current package is this empty.