Quote: (02-19-2018 02:47 PM)Peregrine Wrote:
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I know that I am underpaid by almost 30% given my skill set.
How do you know this?
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3 things:
1) I get about 3 emails a day from headhunters. Most of these are keyword searches by outsourced Indians that are not jobs that I am qualified to do, but I get about one or two a week that actually fit. When I got back to one of them, when he asked me what salary I wanted what I gave was so low he insisted on raising it to a point that was almost 30% higher than my current salary.
2) One of my fellow employees got screwed by my contractor on salary. He eventually got another job because he desperately needed more money. When his client found out that he was leaving and asked his salary, the client called my contractor and screamed at them for ripping them off and demanded his salary be raised.
3) There is a self-employed contactor with decades of experience who works at my office and we hang out. When he found out my salary he was quite certain that I was being underpaid.
All that being said, I don't think that I would be as aggressive to capture the full 30%.