How to Ask for a Raise: Letter Template and Example

A raise request asks your manager for a specific new salary and gives the reasons in their terms: what you delivered, how your job has grown and what the figure is based on. It is short, opens with the ask, and ends by asking for a meeting; the conversation happens there, and the letter gives your manager what they need to take it upstairs.

Get these right before you write

1Ask for one figure, not a range; the bottom of a range is what you will be offered.

2Use results with numbers from the last year, not how long you have been there.

3Base the figure on market data or the new scope, never on personal costs.

4Send it a few weeks before budgets are set, and ask for a meeting.

Structure

The document opens with these headings and blanks.

Raise request

Subject: [Request to discuss my salary]

Hi [manager],

[I would like to discuss raising my salary from [current] to [figure].]

##What I have delivered since [last review]

[result, with a number]

##How the role has grown

[New responsibilities.]

##The figure

[What it is based on: market data, the new scope.]

[A request to meet; thanks.]

[Name]

A complete example

Written by the AI from this brief, exactly as the workbench would write yours:

A raise request from Priya Nair, a customer support team lead at a software company, to her manager Daniel Brooks; she asks to go from $68,000 to $78,000; since her review in March 2026 she cut the average first response time from 9 hours to 2 hours and raised the satisfaction score from 82% to 91%; she now also hires and trains new agents and her team grew from 4 to 7; the figure is based on salary surveys for support team leads in her city, which put the role at $75,000 to $82,000; she asks for 30 minutes before the 2027 budget is set.

Request for Salary Review

To: Daniel Brooks From: Priya Nair Subject: Request to discuss a salary adjustment

Dear Daniel,

I am writing to ask for a raise, from my current salary of $68,000 to $78,000. I would like to explain the basis for this request and to find 30 minutes with you before the 2027 budget is set.

What I have delivered since my March 2026 review

Cut the team's average first response time from 9 hours to 2 hours.
Raised the customer satisfaction score from 82% to 91%.

How my role has grown

Since March, my responsibilities have expanded beyond leading the team day to day:

I now hire and train all new support agents.
The team has grown from 4 to 7 agents under my lead.

The figure and what it is based on

I am asking for $78,000. Salary surveys for customer support team leads in our city place the role at $75,000 to $82,000 [source needed]. Given the results above and the added hiring and training responsibilities, $78,000 sits in the middle of that range and reflects the work I am doing today.

A request to meet

Could we set aside 30 minutes in the coming weeks, before the 2027 budget is finalised, to discuss this? I am happy to work around your schedule.

Thank you for your support over the past year and for the trust you have placed in me with a growing team. I am proud of what we have built and look forward to continuing to raise the bar for our customers.

Kind regards,

Priya Nair Customer Support Team Lead

Names, figures and dates in the example are made up for illustration.

How it works

1Open the template: a document with the skeleton and the brief appears.

2Add one line about your case to the brief, or attach your notes as sources, and press First draft.

3Edit directly, or ask the AI to tighten, expand or translate any passage; every AI change is reviewed before it lands.

Questions

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