We recommend that requests for raises be made in-person, at a meeting requested for that purpose. It is a wise, respectful and effective step to forward to the meeting participant(s), in advance, your good reasons for your request. This affords them an opportunity to think before the meeting, ask questions at the meeting, and possibly even come to the meeting with an answer, hopefully a positive answer, at that. This Model Memo provides 15 Great Reasons for your raise request. Like all of our Model Letters and Memos, it shows you “What to Say, and How to Say It.”™ A Very Popular Item!!