Negotiating a Raise
I love my job. It's the best one I've ever had, and honestly, it's because of this that I haven't made noise about my salary. But it's gotten to the point where I feel it's time to speak to my manager about a raise. I made a move from Customer Care into IT, and I underbid myself salary-wise to make my application an attractive one. It worked, and I got the job which I have been doing successfully for a year now. I'm so successful, in fact, that I have VPs, Directors, and even C-Suite reaching out to me for my input on certain aspects of the business. I'm not only pretty severely underpaid for what I do (we're talking about a 30-40k difference here), but I also have a title that's a couple of levels below what I actually do. I want to open the conversation with my manager, but I'm not sure how to broach the subject without making it seem like I'm unhappy or threatening to quit. Any advice? As stated, I am a rare person who wakes up in the morning and is excited to go to work every day, so I'm very hesitant to do anything that might jeopardize that.
I've come across a lot of Reddit posts about how SmileDirectClub is fraud
Nothing wrong with your concerns, just be open and honest, tell them what you said here, and see how they react and then reassess how you feel from there. Sometimes if your employer reacts negatively, that can change your perception of your job and realize you’re not as valued by higher ups as you thought you were. It could very well be that your assessment is correct and they might give you a promotion. Won’t know until you bring it up.
Thank you for actually answering the question rather than trying to roast the employer. Much appreciated.
You need leverage aka another offer
Working on that. :-) I've had a couple of opportunities pop up, but nothing definitive yet.
No man. Common advice is never accept counter offer from your current employer. If you have to go interview elsewhere to prove your worth then it’s already too late. Another way to look at it is negotiating job/salary internally should not be harder than doing the same externally since you already have your foot in the door. If they make you do the whole process externally and then you have to do more work for them to match, then it’s already too late and not worth the hassle. At that point just take the new offer.
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”
I asked for one last week
I hope it works out for you!!
Wonderful article, thank you for sharing :)
I've been at my company for 20 years and only get paid about 25% more than I started at, so these kinds of articles depress me (but thanks for linking to it for us!).
sounds like you don't want to negotiate a salary raise but a promotion since you already work above your level. salary raise should be part of the promotion then
You remind me myself in my prev company. From my personal experience: told my manager that I like my job but I have checked the marked statistics and seems like Im underpaid. He told me that he would have to talk to his maneger and also HR to check it. After few months (the yearly review) I got promoted + 20% rise.
Yes! Thank you! I'm going to say the same thing.
I use to love my previous job than ever before but I took a hard decision to move on because of pay and other factors..but later realized my present team at amazon is way much better than previous one and what I heard from the people. I would say just ask yourself what you need and compare. Do you need better pay? Job satisfaction? Promotion? Recognition? Work with smart people? And so on..
This is my experience too. You might also find a "best work I ever had" elsewhere.
Is smile direct club actually legit? Like should I do it?
If you're asking OP, of course he's gonna say it's legit
Depends. Are your teeth totally jacked? If so, I'd say no, and go see your dentist for an orthodontic referral. For severe cases, traditional routes are much more effective. If you have mild to moderate spacing issues, then it never hurts to try. I've seen a lot of really fantastic results from our customers.