Quote: (06-29-2013 08:31 AM)evilhei Wrote:
From your experience, what works the best when asking for a salary increase at your job? I mean how to argument the requirement the best, not just telling that I will quit if I dont receive this much. Is it ok to ask for more money if you provide more value than year ago? How it is the best to show your added value if your not doing sales or similar job that can easily be measured?
What works and what not?
I made more money when I asked this one question to my superivsor.
"How do I move up?" With more responsibility came more money. (the problem is, if you ever figure out your true value - you'll just be pissed off)
In your case, depends on a lot
- how is your company doing (if they're doing bad, no bueno)
- how are your peers doing relative to you (if you're not the star, no bueno)
- what's the industry doing - going up? going down? ( you build desktop pcs, no bueno)
- what's the market rate for someone with your experience (you're getting paid better than market, no bueno)
- what demonstrable things have you done (you haven't written stuff down, then you have nothing to bargain with)
100% of the time, if you're a good employee, you're making the company money - sales or not. A good admin, a good hr person, a good coder, a good programmer - and I don't even mean superlative - I mean getting the job done that you're being paid for is worth a whole lot. Whenever you get to management, you see how many piss poor hiring decisions you've made and how often times it's better to keep on a marginal worker that can half ass the job than to hire some new person and train them.
But even with all the economic logic on your side, they might say go fuck yourself..or "we'll see next year if you meet all sorts of pie in the sky goals and we'll never honor a commitment"
Most people are getting raises by going lateral. So if you really want a raise at your job, you've got to see if you can get another job that pays more money and see if they can match.
Having had the golden handcuffs on, be careful of what you wish for. Known plenty of well paid lawyers who weren't entrepreneurial. Even if they had great skills, they weren't worth anything w/o their own book of business.
Getting the job done in a half ass way seems to be good enough for lots of businesses nowadays. There's so much bloat, so much wasted effort and underutilized resources in the private sector....I digress
WIA