A "raise" is an increase in your salary, the amount of money that you earn for doing your job.

It isn't unrealistic to expect a salary increase, but the general consensus among management experts is that if you want a raise, you're going to have to justify it more than in previous years.

The survey also showed that employees in Shanghai saw a salary increase of 6.7% on average in the first half of the year, which was the lowest raise among first-tier cities.