Of course I want my salary to be as high as possible and am working hard everyday to deliver good quality work. However sometimes I feel the stuff I'm assigned to do are easy enough that anyone with a college degree could probably learn to do it in 1 month with proper mentorship. This makes me worry that the company can easily find someone with lower cost to do my work. I mean my TC is almost non-existent level for blind, but some times I feel the job can be done by someone earning 60k. TC 135k Yoe 0
Not good to think that way. Your company pays you because you're reliable and can work with others, not just because of what you actually do.
Yes, they can easily replace you. Doesn’t mean they’re going to, unless the cost of replacing you greatly exceeds keeping you around. This number is not just salary difference as well.
I feel people get paid for how quickly they can solve something. They could definitely find someone for cheaper amount but they probably get struck when he needs more time than expected. This is just one line of reasoning.
They probably can and when you becomes too expensive, they will. What you're feeling is called imposter syndrome.. Look it up and read up on it. Meanwhile work on getting mad skillz...
Yes, totally
All three time. I still wonder every day how it is possible.
Sounds like you got imposter syndrome. Almost everyone feels like that in first few years of work like. It will get better after you get some good negative experience that teaches how things are not supposed to work.
Find a way to link your work to revenue. For example maybe you maintain a widget that brings the company $1M per year. Suddenly you're underpaid...
Look at theCEOs, do you think they deserve to be paid at tens of millions of $ a year for the work they do?
They do! Without their direction the company may go out of business 🤷🏻♂️
Yeah, that's a pretty dumb comparison. That's literally the only comparison that doesn't work here. You could have said anything else except for that.
All the time. I work barely 20 hours a week (100% remote) and pull down $300k. I'm constantly exceeding expectations because I work fast, take initiative in doing things and I'm always responsive on Slack during working hours. But it probably appears I'm working a lot more than I am.
Same. I mean I'm making 1/3rd your pay but other than that, same. Going remote proved to me what I've always thought is right: "I can do this job in half the time and be twice as happy if I wasn't forced to sit at this desk for 8 hours a day". Remote rocks.