Raise is used after these nouns:
merit, pay, salary

Raise is used with these nouns as the subject:
appeal, case, finance, lottery, wolf

Raise is used with these nouns as the object:
age, alarm, alert, anchor, animal, arm, army, awareness, baton, beaker, bid, binoculars, blind, bow, brow, capital, cash, cattle, ceiling, challenge, cheer, chicken, child, chin, cholesterol, clamour, complaint, confidence, consciousness, corn, criticism, crop, cry, cup, daughter, defence, dividend, doubt, duty, earnings, employment, esteem, excise, expectation, eye, eyebrow, family, fare, fear, fee, finger, fist, flag, foot, forecast, fund, funding, fuss, game, glass, grade, gun, hand, hat, hatch, head, hip, hope, intake, invoice, issue, kid, laugh, level, lid, likelihood, limit, loan, matter, money, morale, objection, outcry, palm, pay, pension, per cent, petition, pig, pistol, point, possibility, poultry, premium, prestige, price, problem, productivity, profile, prospect, quality, query, question, rate, rebellion, rent, revenue, rifle, risk, sail, salary, sheep, shield, shotgun, siege, sight, smile, son, spear, spectre, speculation, speed limit, spirit, sponsorship, stake, standard, status, stink, storm, subject, sum, suspicion, tariff, tax, taxation, temperature, tempo, threshold, thumb, toast, topic, tuition, turkey, twin, value, velocity, visibility, voice, wage, weapon, wreck