Well that’s exactly what 25-year-old Cecilia Manduca did, taking her salary from £30k a year to £37k after deciding she had earned it.

Manduca works for GrantTree, a company that offers expertise in government funding, and spoke about her workplace’s “pay self-assessment process” on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Wake Up To Money programme.

The innovative system allows staff to set their own salary and doesn’t require approval from any managers, meaning workers literally pay themselves what they want and review this whenever they feel is needed.

Instead of seeking approval, employees instead ask for advice, creating a “it takes a village” type mentality. Essentially, every time someone wants to change their pay, they ask to sit down with other members of the team to discuss whether they think they deserve it and if it feels fair to the company.

Manduca says: “I felt a lot of doubts asking for that raise. It took a lot of talks with other people. I was aware that my job had changed. I was aware I was going way beyond my targets.

“I knew that from a rational point of view I deserved that higher rate. But I had a lot of self-doubt and I felt sort of greedy because there’s always a stigma – a sense you should feel happy with what you have.

“When I spoke with my colleagues internally and asked for advice, the advice they gave me was that yes I did deserve it and I was worth it.”

Do you earn enough money? This company will let you decide your own salary