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sure, you bargained. But your job isn't to bargain for salary. That's not the value you provide to a company. And so the dumb part, the unfair part, about sala
by tyre 6y ago
sure, you bargained. But your job isn't to bargain for salary. That's not the value you provide to a company.
And so the dumb part, the unfair part, about salary discrepancies is that it is divorced from performance. It is divorced from value.
Which doesn't mean that you, on an individual level, shouldn't negotiate.
But it does imply that salary negotiation generally leads to results that (very) (incredibly) (if at all) loosely correlate with what the job is.
And all of this assumes that any two people walking into the same negotiations with the same skillset, exp, etc. will have the same experience. Which is, you know…not how it works.
- zdragnar 6y ago> your job isn't to bargain for salary This is a bit nonsensical. Nobody knows better than you what your time is worth because it is your time. You don't owe companies anything, including working for less than you are willing to take in payment.
- je42 6y agoYou shouldnt discount that a lot of people cannot just walk away from a job because the only got a 3% increase while they wanted 10%. You need to be confident that you can find another job that pays equally or better in order to be truely using the leverage. A lot of people don't have that security and cannot take that risk.
- sokoloff 6y agoKey to any negotiation is understanding what your next best alternative is. If your current employer is far and away your best alternative, you have limited leverage. Likewise, if you’re far and away the company’s best alternative, you have increased leverage.