Throwaway account, for several reasons.
The company I work for now, they own several very well recognized consumer brands However the company itself is mostly unknown because it's basically a holding company. Most of the other executives here are at least 10-20 years older than myself, I don't really have a ton of contacts outside the company. Most of the people that I've networked with have primarily been for sales/marketing purposes rather than career builders.
Most of this is because I started out of college as a non-equity partner in a startup, which I grew (along with a few other people) into a $50 million dollar company and we got acquired. I got a small portion of the buyout money (being non-equity), and was kept on by the company that bought us out. This was 4 years ago.
I was, and still am, Vice President of our division. Every year, my bonus structure changes, and as a result, much salary has remained roughly flat for the past 4 years; right around $200,000 a year. However, every year my responsibilities increase significantly. Coming from a startup, I have a diverse skill set (sales, marketing, full stack developer, product development, product management, project management both technical and non, data analyst, AI/Machine Learning specialist) which I picked up along the way of growing my original company. It was fulfilling back then because as I developed new skills, my pay increased accordingly.
Now, I feel like I'm stuck in a bit of a rut. Although I always read about or hear stories from friends who have jumped jobs and gotten large pay raises, it always seems to be jobs in the high five figures or low six figures. They don't seem to advertise $300,000/year jobs in the classifieds.
Any advice on where to start looking for C-Level type jobs to advance my career and hopefully get a decent pay bump? Or is it unrealistic to expect to walk into a company and command a $250k/year salary.
I'm more than willing to answer any questions or provide clarification.
EDIT: The reason I post this in /r/personalfinance rather than r/careeradvice is because the decision to try to move on is basically motivated entirely by the potential to earn significantly more somewhere else. A very common piece of advice I see here is that the main way to get large pay raises is to move jobs.
Submitted November 09, 2018 at 11:25PM by BurntOutExec https://ift.tt/2Ff60Tz
