Hello, I’m new to the job force and don’t yet understand how these things work (or if it’s even possible to do what I’m asking), so I’m looking for candid advice where salary negotiations, while already working for a company, are concerned.
The short of it is: Multiple co-workers have resigned, in quick succession, in a short time span and now there’s a [huge] void on a project that I’m being asked to fill. As in, going from fully staffed to just me and a product manager now. I‘m of the opinion that such a significant shift in responsibility should come with a title change and a salary adjustment.
I would like to go from junior [job title] to just regular [job title] and boost my salary closer to what I know one of the coworkers who left made (I’d still be making $10k less than the lowest paid one).
Background:
I came into the company at a junior level (role and pay) and in the year or so that I’ve been here, I’ve already come up to par doing work equivalent to my peers, who get paid $20k-$40k more than me based on their experience.
Up until now, I haven’t minded being undervalued by the company since I valued all the growth and learning I was getting for my own future. But I think we’ve begun to slip into the realm of ridiculous with this new proposition of doing 2-3 people’s work for the same junior title and pay. Or maybe I need to adopt some more humility and grind it out until annual reviews...9 months from now? I just worry about that cause my raise for this past year was 3% — and that was after coming up a steep learning curve.
I don’t mind working harder, I just don’t want to be taken advantage of. I already flagellated myself in accepting this junior pay cause I was excited about the industry and the experience I would build. That “opportunity” is now turning into a financial nightmare.
So how do I navigate getting that tremendous salary adjustment? My leverage right now is that the company probably cannot afford to lose one more person (but companies can be irrational lol, so who knows!)
Submitted March 10, 2019 at 03:09AM by erlyretirm https://ift.tt/2J1Flvq
