The phrase "award an increase" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is being granted a raise or an increase in benefits, salary, or other forms of compensation.
Example: "The company decided to award an increase in salary to all employees who met their performance targets."
Alternatives: "grant a raise" or "bestow an increment".
Among students who graduated in 2014, 70% received a first class or 2 1 degree award, an increase of two percentage points compared with 2013.
In an email to senior managers today, Thompson said: "The directors and I discussed this very carefully before concluding it was not appropriate to award an increase in pay or award a bonus this year to the senior managers of the organisation – but that we should continue with a modest pay review for the majority of the BBC's employees.
Other changes during that period identified by senior managers were the on-going negotiation of a new pay award, an increased demand on services, and a resource-intensive RCB initiative undertaken by the organisation.
Clinician-scientists are awarded an increasing proportion of CIHR research grants and salary awards.
Departments will award a 1% increase to senior civil servants on a discretionary basis and a 1% rise will be awarded to the majority of prison officers.
A couple of years ago, when we took on extra duties, my colleagues were awarded an annual increase of £500, which I was not.
The university said it awarded an 8.3 percent increase annually in his guaranteed compensation over the remaining seven years of his contract, now worth $36.5 million.
The city is now paying out $500 million a year in damage awards, a twentyfold increase in 20 years.
Its already well-paid secretary, Baleni, was awarded a salary increase of more than 40% last year and his total salary package is just more than R105 000 a month.
On top of his bumper pay ITV's remuneration committee awarded a 2.75% increase to his base salary from 1 January, taking his pay to £840,706.
