Annual Appraisal and Pay Rise

It's that appraisal / pay-rise time of year again.

Had the appraisal meeting with my boss first thing this morning, where he went through my contribution to the team, progress against objectives, strength's and weaknesses, communications yada yada yada yada...

On the whole the appraisal was good, with mostly positive feedback. I was only partially listening towards the end.
This was mainly because he was reading from an appraisal form. Written in biro on the back sheet, facing me, was my current salary plus an additional figure.

This of course was the info that I really wanted to know i.e. my pay rise for this year.

As usual the appraisal itself has little to do with how they carve up the cash. I'm convinced they set this during budgeting at the start of the year and stick with it. So much for perfomance related pay and meritocracy!

Got a better rise than most that I know of, but not the greatest increase I've ever had.