Which sentence below is correct?
Ben received a pay rise.
Ben received a pay raise.
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Ben received a pay rise.
Ben received a pay raise.
That depends.
In American English, a person receives a raise in salary. In British English it is a rise.
Source: dictionary.com
In each region you can even use raise / rise without pay and there is no question about what's increased:
Ben received a raise.
or:
Ben received a rise.
Hmmm - just based the general usage of the words in other contexts, I would say "pay rise" denotes some across the board increase that everyone got due to contract negotiations or gov't action. A "pay raise" would denote that Bill alone got the increase.
Even so - it's a stretch and I would normally ask for clarification as the meaning is unclear - I'm not sure anyone else would see the difference. It strikes me as the sort of differentiation that a specialist in accounting or management would make aot the normal guy on the street.