I am meeting with my dept director today to go over my salary, and for me to request a raise. I've been in my position three years now; I've tried for promotions multiple times and failed based on seniority, and have never gotten a raise.
I have a multi-page document I'm bringing with me to outline all of the major projects and initiatives I've taken on (solo and collaborative) over these past three years. I'm also asking for a 10% raise; in breaking down numbers and reflecting on what I wanted, I decided on 8% for merit, and an 2% that should have been considered as a COL raise that no one in the dept received last year. This raise would add $350 post-tax to my bi-weekly checks, which would bring me up to a fair salary for my position and experience level, in my humble opinion. I will have no opportunities for advancement (there are no additional promotion opportunities anticipated before my contract runs out), so this is really my only shot to try and get a better wage.
I've never done a salary negotiation before (the salary I was offered here was above what I planned on asking for, and had additional benefits that made it an attractive initial salary for my first post-grad job), so I'm nervous.
1.) How should I approach the conversation?
2.) If the answer is no and I'm asked if I plan on leaving because of it (which is a hard yes), should I be honest?
3.) If I don't get this raise, I am beginning a hardcore job hunt. Should I be arguing for a much higher increase than 10%? Most of the jobs in my field offer salaries close to what I'm making now, but the midpoint and max salaries are much higher than this. I feel like I could argue for 15% or 20% if I took on a different (yet similar) role with more responsibility (something I was trying to pursue with these promotions). The only reason I'm not asking for more is because I do not have any additional responsibilities; some of the jobs I've started casually looking at have far more responsibility than I do now, hence me wondering if I should vet for more.
4.) If the answer is yes: should I send a thank you note to my boss? HR? What's the courteous thing to do?
5.) If they counteroffer: how should I approach that?
Thank you in advance.
Submitted February 08, 2018 at 05:51AM by EnoughDescription http://ift.tt/2BLxVI8
