means To raise is to lift something to a higher position, level, or amount — including, when it comes to wages, the increase in pay you receive.

from From Old Norse 'reisa,' meaning to make rise or set upright — a cousin of English 'rise' and 'rear.' Vikings brought it across the North Sea, where it took root in English as the workaday word for lifting things up: a barn, a glass, a child, and eventually a salary.