Thanks for your comments. The reason I asked the question is that in western countries usually, the trend is that private companies estimate the annual pay increase of their staff by looking at government's pay increase. For example, if the government increases the salary by 3%, they may increase by 4-5%.

I work for a private company; in my contract, it says the company will review the pay each year. Hopefully it means that it will only go up :-) So I wanted to get an idea of how much it will go up by? Cheers