<prompt> Human: No response in askreddit, so I moved it over here.Throwaway Wall of Text Sorry in advanceI work at the corporate office of a big retail company. I found out earlier this week that I was not selected to promote to the next level of my job. However, when having follow up meetings with my boss, skip-level boss, and their skip-level boss, all of their conversations have left me blameless and looking for answers.I explained to everyone that I would appreciate any constructive feedback. They have all maintained that I am exceeding what is expected of my role and have had zero complaints about my work thus far. Pointing out that having zero areas for improvement but not being considered for a promotion seems to be contradictory, each of them responded with a variant of Im sorry, but theres nothing that I can do at this point. Ive picked up a few awards along the way, and continuously deliver above-average results their words.Im interested in leveraging the fact that everyone has such positive feedback for me in order to ask for an off-cycle raise.I believe I am right to ask for a raise for the following reasons:Above average performance Im currently paid below market rate Zero areas to improve at this point based on the goals of the position. I completely understand that everyone does have areas for improvementRight now I make a little under 60k. There are 3 levels of folks in my role: junior manager, manager, senior manager. I am a junior and the promotion would have been to manager. Others in the junior role were promoted this cycle, with varying levels of performance in this period I am competitive against these individuals. Market pay ranges from 60ish not sure where it bottoms out to 130k glassdoor annually.My plan is to ask for a 15k raise, based on the reasons above.How do I approach this with my manager? Should I wait?Thanks in advance.  <response>: Ask them for advice on how to reach the next level. At my current job exceeding expectations for the current role does NOT mean youre working at a higher up positions capacity. It just means youre pretty darn good at what you do now. 