Yenibiris.com’s poll among 9,363 workers and 1,148 managers in human resource departments of Turkish companies revealed that only a small number of firms have already determined by how much to raise the wages of their employees.
In response to the question of whether or not they were expecting a wage increase, 33.6 percent of workers who provided answers to the Web site’s survey said they were desperate for an increase in their earnings in 2010. Another 27 percent slice, however, said wages would probably increase “only by the inflation rate.”
Among those companies that responded to the questionnaire, 40 percent said wages would only increase by the rate of inflation at best. Another 25 percent said workers’ earnings would increase in varying degrees depending on performance, while 18 percent said the rate of increase would initially be equal to the inflation rate but may be higher if conditions improve. Only 17 percent of companies, on the other hand, answered saying they were considering a “serious” raise in wages.
