I’m going on 2.5 years out of college and I had my first yearly review. I don’t hate what I’m doing and that’s a big deal! However when I lost my last job due to out sourcing I re-evaluated where I needed to be and came up with 37k salary to cover my expenses and be on track with savings. The previous job was 16/hr @ 32 hours. So that wasn’t doing it.
When I took this last job I didn’t really get a chance to Negotiate my salary. They called and say you start Monday. It started at 25k and would go up to 27,500k after three months and it six months it would go up to the full 30k Because I’m not on their insurance because I still have a year left on my mom’s they started me off at 27,500 and I went to 30k at three months instead of six months.
My salary is currently: 30k I get paid for 35 hours and last year I earned over 16.5 comp days. I do a lot of weekend and weekday events photographing. However I was holding onto the days to use because it’s my first real year at an office and never worked salary before.
So since I actually don’t mind my job I don’t really want to leave. It’s not in a big city so I don’t have to worry about parking. I only drive 7 minutes to work and it’s a very casual office. There are only 4 of us and typically my two bosses work from home. Leaving one or two people there.
So at my yearly review I waited and waited to see if he would tell me what my pay raise was. Nothing. So I took the chance I had when the waitor came to take the check. I told him my Financial situation would be changing the next year because I’d like to move in with my boyfriend, I’d like to start saving up for a house, and my car literally only has 15,000 miles left before it shits the bed.
Instead of asking for a pay raise since they are already 7k from where I need to be and that’s over a 30% pay raise I knew I wouldn’t get it and I worked over 116 hours which is basically a 13th month.
I asked to stay at 30k and drop to a 4 day schedule. I shoot boudoir and organize on the side so having one extra day would allow me to hopefully make up the $500 a month I’m missing out on.
I asked him in July and he didn’t get back to me until I brought it back up a month later (avoiding paying me a month of my new salary)
His offer was to drop me to hourly. He claims that I make over $17/hr I’ve done this time and time again and I only make 16.48/hr. 30k/1820(yearly paid hours)
My work is very busy in some months and the month of June In example I didn’t work 10 days because we were not busy. So if I change to hourly I’m worried that I would work more hours one week and he would drop me x amount to keep me balanced the following week. Then in the summer I would barely be able to work.
Why should I do?
My new goal was to have one day a week to freelance. I asked high so we could have room to Negotiate. That be equal to a 6k raise.
I CANT work only 28 hours a week at 17.50. $980 before taxes. I make after taxes$1,042 now and I’m struggling.
I was thinking of asking to do 4-8hr days and 1-3hr day to get me the one extra half day to work. As well as the 17,.50 pay raise.
Which would bring me to $1,225 before taxes paycheck.
My other idea was dropping to a 32hr week (because I don’t really want to work 8-4) and staying at the 30k. That comes out to 18.02/hr.
Even though that’s higher per hour than he wants to pay I work so many extra hours a week I hope he gets that. It would be like me working 1779.5 hours a year with over time. Which would come to 16.86/hr.
Ideally I thought I would be working in an advertising agency doing sales work. So I’m not where I thought I would be literally as well as Financially.
Submitted September 07, 2018 at 08:21AM by Queenie927 https://ift.tt/2NYDju5
