How do you ask your manager for a raise?

Steps

How to ask your manager for a raise

1. 1

   Write the work down before you need it

   Log wins when they ship. A raise talk in September cannot recover January from memory.

2. 2

   Polish a short evidence list

   Scope, metrics, who else saw it. Export from Puvio if that is where the vault lives. One to two pages, not a memoir.

3. 3

   Book a meeting and say the number

   Compensation conversation, not a vague “how am I doing.” A band or a percent. They cannot advocate without a target.

4. 4

   Leave them something they can forward

   Your manager argues in rooms you are not in. A PDF or bullets they can paste beats a speech they have to reconstruct.

Raise versus promotion

A raise is more money in the same seat. A promotion is a new level and usually a packet. Do not mix the asks in one dump unless your company uses one process for both.

Puvio’s brag export is useful for either. The conversation is still yours. puvio.app/answers/how-to-document-wins-for-promotion

What managers can actually use

Numbers, scope, customers, reliability. Not “I have grown a lot this year.” Kenji’s director quoted a migration metric from a one-pager. Story: puvio.app/stories/skip-level-evidence