Hello, starting with the good news first. I successfully negotiated my first ever performance review! I'm in a hybrid position at a start up and wear many hats. With that being said, it was difficult to gauge if I'm being compensated fairly since there's few jobs that really mirror what I do. It is also probably important to note that I live in an area where cost of living is absurd.
During my review, in order to validate my salary negotiation, I used glassdoor. Basically, my work overlaps in the industries X Y Z, so I took those jobs and looked at their averages salaries for the area. Once I had all those, I'll averaged them together totaling around ~75k and that's what I proposed.
Long story short, it was approved by the company but they said that Glassdoor salaries are not reliable and heavily inflated. Is this true? If so, what sources can I use in the future to better gauge compensation.
I didn't bother to question it, just took the increase and ran. Any insight would be helpful!
Submitted August 06, 2017 at 06:16PM by heysupbruh http://ift.tt/2wkOVyK
