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In your institution, what are the odds of a PhD candidate getting a pay raise?

Hi all, 

Some background to this question. My PhD candidacy is as an internal employee of the university, so in that position we get full salary, benefits and so on. Now, with that as a starting point. Within this position things have been going quite well and I have luckily been involved in things above and beyond the regular 'workload' of a PhD candidate, e.g. My supervisor and I do a project involving big names in our field from Stanford and Harvard and I've personally had numerous (national) media report on my work, always with of course our faculty's name attached. 

While I enjoy my job a lot, obviously none of us work just for fun. So I'm contemplating discussing with my direct supervisor or HR to ask for an increase in salary that fits with the work I am doing that benefits both the law faculty and me.

My main worry is that they will say: 'Yes you've been doing many things but that is part of any PhD candidacy and does not warrant extra salary.'. However, in that case, no PhD could ever get a salary increase, and that seems ridiculous. So how do you look at this matter?
gpt
I know that given inflation etc some universities are giving raises at the moment. However, sometimes PhD salaries are set centrally or PIs are strongly discouraged from changing them (or led to believe that we can't but maybe we can).

Honestly it sounds like you're doing well. If you are really keen on a pay raise your best bet may be focussing on writing up and getting a new job.