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Honestly, I'm not concerned if it "great resignation" really happened. My boss heard the news and I was able to leverage an offer to get a 50% salary increase.

by avgDev 5y ago

Honestly, I'm not concerned if it "great resignation" really happened. My boss heard the news and I was able to leverage an offer to get a 50% salary increase. This worked out well for me. The negative side-effect is that I am getting ghosted a lot on linked-in as my salary is high for the area and recruiters just stop responding when they hear what offer I would consider. However, my next move is going to be to a tech company which will enable another 50% jump hopefully.

belval 5y ago
Honestly I'd have trust issues if someone increased my salary 50% because it would mean they severely underpaid for several years to get to a point where I am worth a 50% increase. Not saying that your boss is bad or that you should leave your company, whatever works, but yeah it's something.
- avgDev 5y ago
  I wasn't underpaid. I was about average for the market but I liked the flexibility they offered. I'm now way above average. I doubled my salary in 4 years, but I try to do my best to produce results.
SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Telling recruiters what I'd expect from a salary, and then never hearing from them again, is something that I consider a feature, not a bug. It means I'm not getting nagged by recruiters weekly. I still get a new one every month or two, but the frequency is much more manageable now.
- joshstrange 5y ago
  Agreed. When I'm in "Job hunt mode" I write up a paragraph or two with what I'm looking for (salary, health insurance, 401k+matching, etc) and what I'd be willing accept in lieu of some of those things (no matching? Ok then I need to be making X% more to make up for that). It also includes what types of technology I'm interested in working with. Then I just spam that out to every recruiter that has or is currently emailing me or messaging me on platforms like LinkedIn. Every time I do look at switching jobs I consider going into recruiting instead as most all recruiters I've ever worked with are completely incompetent. I don't expect them to know every technology and how it works but I do expect some basic patten-matching-level of competence (for example, you don't need to know anything about Angular/Vue/React but those should come to mind when "frontend" is mentioned and if a developer says they want to work with "Vue" the recruiter should be able to ask "Would you also be ok with Angular/React?"). Most of the time they function only as slow go-betweens in a game of telephone that they mangle horribly. I've had recruiters lie, ghost me, or just fail at basic message-passing. The last recruiter I worked with was so slow at responding that I just went around them and contacted the company directly and had an interview setup almost immediately. For the amount a recruiter gets for placing someone I'd expect they'd be much better at what they do.
hereforphone 5y ago
Why are you telling them your salary?
- avgDev 5y ago
  Because I start my conversation with "What is the salary range for this position?", and if that range is too low, I give them a number we may start a discussion at. I don't feel like talking about position that pays $20k less than my current one. Edit: I am not telling anyone my salary, but minimum for me to consider a position.
jimbokun 5y ago
> The negative side-effect is that I am getting ghosted a lot on linked-in as my salary is high for the area and recruiters just stop responding when they hear what offer I would consider. Haha, sounds like a real first world problem!

by avgDev 5y ago

belval 5y ago

Honestly I'd have trust issues if someone increased my salary 50% because it would mean they severely underpaid for several years to get to a point where I am worth a 50% increase. Not saying that your boss is bad or that you should leave your company, whatever works, but yeah it's something.

avgDev 5y ago
I wasn't underpaid. I was about average for the market but I liked the flexibility they offered. I'm now way above average. I doubled my salary in 4 years, but I try to do my best to produce results.

SomeCallMeTim 5y ago

Telling recruiters what I'd expect from a salary, and then never hearing from them again, is something that I consider a feature, not a bug. It means I'm not getting nagged by recruiters weekly. I still get a new one every month or two, but the frequency is much more manageable now.

joshstrange 5y ago
Agreed. When I'm in "Job hunt mode" I write up a paragraph or two with what I'm looking for (salary, health insurance, 401k+matching, etc) and what I'd be willing accept in lieu of some of those things (no matching? Ok then I need to be making X% more to make up for that). It also includes what types of technology I'm interested in working with. Then I just spam that out to every recruiter that has or is currently emailing me or messaging me on platforms like LinkedIn. Every time I do look at switching jobs I consider going into recruiting instead as most all recruiters I've ever worked with are completely incompetent. I don't expect them to know every technology and how it works but I do expect some basic patten-matching-level of competence (for example, you don't need to know anything about Angular/Vue/React but those should come to mind when "frontend" is mentioned and if a developer says they want to work with "Vue" the recruiter should be able to ask "Would you also be ok with Angular/React?"). Most of the time they function only as slow go-betweens in a game of telephone that they mangle horribly. I've had recruiters lie, ghost me, or just fail at basic message-passing. The last recruiter I worked with was so slow at responding that I just went around them and contacted the company directly and had an interview setup almost immediately. For the amount a recruiter gets for placing someone I'd expect they'd be much better at what they do.

hereforphone 5y ago

Why are you telling them your salary?

avgDev 5y ago
Because I start my conversation with "What is the salary range for this position?", and if that range is too low, I give them a number we may start a discussion at. I don't feel like talking about position that pays $20k less than my current one. Edit: I am not telling anyone my salary, but minimum for me to consider a position.

jimbokun 5y ago

> The negative side-effect is that I am getting ghosted a lot on linked-in as my salary is high for the area and recruiters just stop responding when they hear what offer I would consider. Haha, sounds like a real first world problem!