Coworker Increased salary by 60%. What should I ask for?
Hi there,
My deets:
- UX designer at telecomm
- Good at job (not to toot my horn, but I don’t suck)
- Masters in HCI
- TC is 115k
- Located in a low cost of living tech city
Here’s the situation. My coworker who is a content strategist got a job at a grocery store chain local to our state. Comes from advertising with 2 years of experience in UX writing. I helped her calculate her total comp at our company to help her evaluate her market worth somewhere else. She made 95k at our company. She ditched my calculations and asked for 175k at the new company. My OTHER friend who works at the grocery store chain was like “I heard your coworker asked for a crazy salary.” Well...my coworker turned out to be no dummy because they came down to 150k. In our city, that’s pretty generous.
Long story short, I just interviewed at FAANG today. And now I’m like...the salaries I’m seeing on levels.fyi and Glassdoor for this FAANG for UX design are like 130-150k base salary for the Bay Area! I used to think that was a lot, now I feel sad. If my coworker can get 150 at a grocery store chain with not much experience (she IS very smart and great at her job), what should I be negotiating for at a FAANG in California? Up is down and down is up.
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Also hate to break it to you everyone I interview has a HCI degree, pretty meaningless to me honestly. I’d rather see proven launches and work experience.