Apparently when he talked to his boss, it was the perfect time to discuss it because his boss needed to give financial projections to the corporate end of the business for the next year... so if he was going to give him a raise or even consider it, South County Boy sure timed talking about it at the right moment. Now his company doesn't give annual raises at all because they do profit sharing instead if the company has profits... but since South County Boy was hired originally as a driver and since then has done more warehouse and now sales work, he's become far more valuable...
He wasn't going to talk to his boss until February, but he had a feeling or a prompting and so he talked with his boss out of the blue about it when the timing was actually perfect. While his boss understood our predicament (it looked like daycare would cost us more than his take home pay each month so we were possibly considering him being a stay at home dad)... he couldn't make any promises but appreciated the open discussion.
We hadn't heard anything since then... and SCB wasn't going to talk to his boss until early March to see if there was an update...
But this week he was called into his bosses office...
and told he got a raise...
a big one...
22.7% more....
because he thought to ask his boss for it.
He now gets $13.50 an hour... and we are feeling so incredibly blessed because this will provide a nice chunk of change for us each month and it makes us feel like we have options for our budget and not just worst case scenarios...
On top of that, South County Boy can keep his job with all the perks that come from it. (Like staying in the workforce... earning 401k contributions, giving us a second option for health insurance, getting profit share checks... and helping to pay for things other than daycare like diapers and wipes)...
It is really satisfying for me to know that my husband feels he significantly helps provide for his family. SCB has always been bummed that he doesn't make that much money, or that I make more than he does.... but with this raise he actually feels like he is helping to take care of his son and his family and that means so much to me. I can tell him how much he contributes and how valuable he is as an earner to our family, but if he doesn't believe it, I can't make him... and its so wonderful to know how much this means to him.
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