<prompt> Human: I have my first employee review coming up soon and as I feel I have learned a lot in my first year working here and now offer a lot more to the company, I should be paid more. If my manager pushes back on giving me the raise I ask for, how should I respond? I dont want to be a push-over, but I dont want to respond too aggressively and entitled.  <response>: Finish your evaluation something along the lines of Ive done some salary research and given my current job responsibilities matched to my qualifications Id like to request a raise to xx,xxx. It helps to do some research ahead of time on glassdoor, payscale, etc... to know what the going rate is in your industry given your job responsibilities. Most likely theyll counter and hopefully youll agree upon a figure. If they take offense at asking professionally like that then perhaps its time to seek employment elsewhere.Also, be prepared to leave if you dont get what you want. In my case, I recently asked for a large raise and had it met halfway. I was promised it would be approved within a month. At the end of the month I was told that given the budget situation I cant get your raise approved. To which I conveyed my disappointment but immediately began looking for other jobs. Im going on interviews now for jobs that will pay 15-20k more than Im making now. 