Is There a Budget for a Ten % Raise?

A good rule of thumb is, if everybody in my company gets raises and promotions at the same time, probably not budget there. So yes, you can negotiate for a higher salary, you should wait until there's a budget. A lot of larger enterprise companies will have created essentially a rubric that they'll use to decide how much of a raise any one person in the company can get at a time. And so i think that that was more or less your questionas when's the good time to do it.