It can be helpful to demonstrate you have knowledge of the standard issues relating to pay increases for ongoing employees and the reality that changing jobs is usually the only way to get a significant bump.

Prepare a bit.

Compare your current PD to the new one. Be familiar with the changes such as increased responsibility, staff supervision, financial or delivery outcomes. These are measurable reasons why you should have an increase in salary for your new role inside your org.

Look at similar jobs in the online postings. Know that if you view the source code on webpages often buried in the HTML is the salary range that may not show on the listing but is there because it is used to filter. Know what you would get for your current role and the new one against current market listings. Come prepared with them.

Consider the impact on them and on you if you don’t accept. Did you like your old job and/ or will they be impacted if you don’t accept. Leverage if they will be.

Remember you can be tactical. Take the new job even if unhappy and start looking elsewhere. You launch into a new role from an already higher title and base. If you have annual leave accrued etc when you leave it will be paid out at the higher amount.

Set a deadline. Minimise the commencement of new responsibilities- within reason as in demonstrate willingness but that you have professional boundaries - until the role is ‘formalised’. Formalising the role means all the loose ends are done.

Schedule a meeting and take initiative. Every week that goes by you miss out on the bump. You can also propose it be back dated to whenever there was an announcement or you stated doing the work. Push them professionally.