Candy method - decide your own salary

First: buy M&M’s and some paper cups. Or some other candy, Tikkels will also work fine.

Second: decide the value of an M&M. Every M&M will represent a certain amount. For example; every single candy is worth 5 dollars.

Third: Now, you have to divide the pay raise with a factor (1400:5 = 280 M&M’s in total).

Fourth: Everybody will get the same amount of M&M’s (280:8=35 per person). You can choose to give everybody 30 M&M’s and leave the rest to divide later when there can be some discussion.

Five: Write down the names of all team members on the cups. In a different room, set up the paper cups next to each other.

Six: Everybody can divide their M&M’s over the cups.

Seven: When everybody had their turn, you can get your own cup and count the raise you will get (and eat the candy).

Eight: start a discussion, is everybody happy? You can use the backup to make everybody content. Important: the team has to know each other well (preferably work with each other). When the team is dependant on each other, they will make sure everybody is happy with their raise. It is their own responsibility to keep the team together and engaged, so they will make sure everybody is ok with the result.