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In my experience you never get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. Pick a number to which you will be 100% happy to do the work for and use it as you
by clueless123 16y ago
In my experience you never get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.
Pick a number to which you will be 100% happy to do the work for and use it as your "must have" number, from there consider perks, bonuses, stock etc as nice extras but not part of the must have.
Start as high as you can because that sets your baseline. From there consider that it is a lot easier to get more $ by changing jobs than by merit raises..
My personal pet-peeve, for some reason companies have a problem increasing the pay of top engineers at a rate equivalent to their productivity. (Something that sales people always get)
And finally... always, always always remember: if it is not on paper, it does not count!
- perivamsi 16y ago+1 for "if it is not on paper, it does not count!" I was naive (or inexperienced) enough to take the word of my boss when he said that the firm will match an offer I had with another firm. One year later, I am working with the same firm for 80% less than what I could have been earning. I was given all sorts of reasons under the sun for not increasing my pay. Looking back, I should have got it in writing.
- ayers 16y agoI also agree with "if it is not on paper, it does not count!". My first job they verbally agreed to a pay rise at the end of the first 6 months. It was a lot of hard work getting them to actually act upon this. This was a very very tight company and was hard work even getting the basic tools needed to do my job.