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In most cases, you don't want to take a job that's worth say $100k, but not $150k to an employer. Either the value you're bringing to the company is somewhere
by learc83 9y ago
In most cases, you don't want to take a job that's worth say $100k, but not $150k to an employer.
Either the value you're bringing to the company is somewhere less than $50k, or the company is irrationally tied to not paying more than $100k.
- icebraining 9y agoSo what if the value is less than $50k?
- learc83 9y agoYou want to work for a company where you cost them $150k in salary and benefits and only add $50k in value? That's a very insecure position to be in, it doesn't leave much room for growth, and it means you have very little leverage overall.
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- icebraining 9y agoSix months ago, I was making about 1/6 of that working as a software developer, and I wasn't badly paid for the area. I'm pretty sure most of my colleagues would sign up for that in five minutes.
- learc83 9y agoI'm assuming you mean 1/6 of $150k (150k was salary plus benefits, the salary was only 100k). 25k is very badly paid for any area in the US (outside of a few territories) as a software developer. If you're not in the US, then obviously that changes things.
- icebraining 9y agoYeah, not in the US :)
- jldugger 9y agoThen there's not a heck of a lot of room for error or raises. In a now deleted reddit thread someone was bitching that $150k for programmers was absurd, and they have all kinds of applicants, so nobody's worth that kind of money. My rebuttal was pretty simple: major tech companies have profits per employee north of $100k. That's $100k in compensation left on the table, by companies reputed to be among the highest paying out there. In contrast, IBM has profits of $30k per person and is constantly in layoff mode. That's what happens when the value is less than $50k.
- kartickv 9y agoUnless you're currently making $50K, in which case why would you turn down a 100% raise?