<prompt> Human: Ive worked for my families company nearly 10 years. My last raise was almost 5 years ago now where I was put on salary equaling 18hr. I get no health benefits and the only company perk I have been granted since my last raise is a company vehicle that I am free to use for personal things.I know providing me a work vehicle about makes the company break even because I no longer get paid massive mileage checks for using my personal vehicle. So I dont really consider it much of a massive benefit to me nor much if any of a loss to them. Also the work vehicle is insured under my personal insurance and paid for by them to negate any kind of liability of an accident being had in a true company vehicle and evading attaining commercial insurance.I asked my boss my dad for a raise January of this year and was denied and was told it was due to money constraints within the company.Anyways thats my back story...The company has been doing much better lately so I built up the courage to ask my dad again today. I simply stated its been almost 5 years since my last pay increase, ive remained loyal to the company, gained some skills, taken on a few more resposibilities, and that ultimately I feel a cost of livingraise is warranted.I was told yes indeed it was warranted and that the 4-5 dollar raise I was requesting was acceptable he thought I was initially requesting a 15-20 dollar raise but... since the secretaryaccountant who does payroll whom isnt a family member hasnt gotten a raise and would be pissy and give himme an attitude so therefore cannot do it. He then said he hopes I wont have any type of attitude towards her about it I wont... and that he really wishes and feels like payroll should be handled by a third party so things like this wouldnt be an issue.I was simply floored and didnt know what else to say. She is valuable to the company and does a good job but it just makes me feel like well, its none of her business what people make she just writes the check its not coming out of her pocket... I understand not wanting to stir up resentment and animosity amongnst your employees but give me a break. This just pissed me off. I simply left the conversation saying id be sending him an email with more factsfigures proving my case and rationale and perhaps he would reconsider. He encouraged me to do so and asked to please CC his boss my grandfather as well on the email. I realize my situation is probably rather unique being employed by a small family owned business. But how do you all feel I should proceed? Give me some words of wisdom... thanks guys.Edit: Thank you for the replies everyone. Ive since done more research and it has solidified my feelings that I am not being compensated fairly based on the average price paid for people in my same field in my state. 7-10 per hour below the average to be exact. I kind of want to submit an application at another local company and see what kind of offer they give me and try to use it as a bargaining tool...Ive also added up all the overtime ive done over the past 4.5 years and if I had just remained being paid hourly at 18hr I would have been paid 44,226 in overtime pay... I feel like a total jackass for agreeing to being paid salary and think ive been taken advantage of even if inadvertently.Someone mentioned offering splitting my raise with the secretary whom does payroll. I would perhaps be open to that if she was being underpaid but she makes about 8,000 more yearly than the average for her position. And she works zero overtime ever and never has to work weekends. So that just seems absurd to offer that up when taking that into consideration.I think if they dont provide me the raise I am just going to switch back to hourly. The past month ive been working 10-14 hours of overtime every week. That would net me well above the raise ive requested. And on average I would say I rarely if ever work less than 5 hours of overtime per week. So at worst just going back to hourly will net me a 3.38 raise.  <response>: Read between the lines, what hes telling you is that no one else in the company has been getting raises so for him to give you one would be showing favoritism and cause deserved problems with other employees. You are getting treated like every other employee in the company, if you dont like it you have the same option they do to go and find another job. 