Take this job and shove it!
Workers across the US could be singing this popular country song after winning promotions or agreeing to take on more duties — but not getting any raise with the loftier job title.
Kimberly Saget, of Valley Stream, NY, knows the feeling.
A part-time worker at Walmart, the 22-year-old Long Islander agreed to shoulder additional responsibilities but didn’t see any adjustment in her check.
“They kept giving me more work to do — I was handling more lines of customers, but I got no extra pay,” Saget told The Post. “I did not even get the 20 cents pay rise we were supposed to get on our anniversary.”
Saget decided to quit and has gone back to school and is studying to become a nurse.
Domonique Wilson, a shift leader at a busy Dunkin’ Donuts in Washington, DC, said she is still waiting for the raise she was long ago promised along with her promotion.
To be fair, she did get a raise, to $9.50 an hour, but it was only because the minimum wage in DC was increased.
“I was still supposed to be getting a raise for all my responsibilities, but it still hasn’t come,” Wilson told The Post. “They say, next check, next check.”
“I hear about this today more than I did four or five years ago,” said Rick Spann, senior vice president of client services at OI Global Partners, a human resources consulting firm.
“Employees are being given more responsibility and new titles — they might be promoted to managers and then are responsible not only for their own work, but for the work of an entire department,” then not given raises, Spann said.
It is a well-told story that, despite the drop in the US unemployment rate since 2011, the median wage has fallen by nearly 1 percent.
“Wages have been stagnant or falling for the majority of US workers over the past few years,” David Cooper, economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, told The Post.
Some news stories lately have suggested that wage growth might be happening in certain industries, but there’s no reason to “break out the champagne” yet, he says.
Some of that is attributable to the huge pool of out-of-work Americans, especially the long-term unemployed, who hold less bargaining power to push for a higher salary.
What is not known is how much of the wage stagnation is due to employers not passing along raises as they promote workers into positions in which the outgoing worker earned more.
Upward mobility is not what it used to be in America since companies began to rein in costs about five years ago in the wake of the Great Recession, analysts say.
As a substitute for fatter paychecks, bosses are also minting more presidents and chiefs.
“Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants are independently owned and operated by individual franchisees who are responsible for making their own business decisions, including employment decisions such as schedules, wages and benefits they offer their employees,” a Dunkin’ spokesperson said when asked about workers being promoted without getting raises.
Walmart, which lost a young worker to nursing school when it didn’t come through with a raise, did not return phone calls for comment.