Hot answers tagged salary
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Know When to Hold Them, Know When To Fold Them
You can always negotiate. Always. So long as you are entering in to any sort of agreement, you can withhold your consent. They cannot force you to take on new job responsibilities.
The question you should be asking is...
Do I Have Any Leverage When Negotiating a Promotion?
Joe is a widget-maker. He makes ...
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No, you did the right thing.
If you are asked your current salary, and you feel that you must answer, the right thing to do is to answer honestly. Make sure to include any bonus received. If you are expecting a raise soon, and/or a bonus soon, you want to mention that as well.
What you don't want to do is lie about it. There's a chance you might get away ...
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Joe Strazzere's remark is spot on. There's no standard way for factoring in pension benefits because people have different values. Basically, your decision is an investment one, and probably stands better chance of being discussed ad nauseam at Money SE
The risks are:
age-specific risks of your death/death of spouse,
unexpected changes in your lifestyle ...
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Executive Summary
Nobody really likes negotiating (especially when it turns into something more like haggling). Setting the bar where you want it and sticking to it firmly can be more effective than playing mind games with a hiring professional.
How to Think About Salary Negotiations
I'm sure there are many people out there who will disagree with me ...
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Depends on your company. Sounds like your implementation of hourly vs. salary is one of the less desirable cases. In many cases, there's a really good reason to vary the ways you compensate people based upon the type of work that is needed. But the decision needs to be a fair trade both ways.
Hourly Conditions
For employees in a company, hourly really ...
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You never owe details that you hold personally. I would typically suggest evading the question, and saying what salary you will work for. Someone has to start with a quote for the salary, and it's not unusual for the candidate to be the first to offer information.
Having given your current salary - I really don't think it's the drop dead serious issue ...
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Yes.
But, given that you've already revelealed the salary you can't go back and change the past. Use this as your learning experience to not do this again in the future.
There are two reasons why you don't want to name the last salary:
1) You may be breaching confidential company information by disclosing it. That information is between you and your ...
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Are you sure that salary is the only sticking point here? You mention a changing company culture, that what attracted you to this company is "eroding" and that you are feeling burnt out. These are all classic signs of someone who really wants to leave - without even factoring in your feelings about salary. In my experience, an increase in salary never really ...
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This sounds like you are down to pure money - which is the hardest negotiation point - there's no in between win/win on money - whoever gets more money gets it from someone who gives up money.
Realize that bonuses vs. raises are quite different. Giving a raise commits the company to continuing to pay that value (and build upon it) yearly and the budgets ...
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Look at what your manager's solution was to you requesting a raise because you were a valuable member of the team: he offered you some money to take away the bargaining chip you were using! It seems like you've taken the right step in trying to get a raise (namely ASKING FOR IT and demonstrating value) but you were denied it. I would say that based on this, ...
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You already told them your current salary. Clearly they are still interested and know that your likely new salary will fit within their budget. This is a good sign for you.
And the fact that the HR person said that he/she will "work with the VP on meeting those expectations" is terrific!
In my experience, the signs are all there that they want you and are ...
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Open and honest is probably the best way to start. You could try "After the takeover I have started think about my career. I think we lost a few cultural benefits and I suspect I'm being paid below market. In order to asses this, I've started to look around a bit and that seems to confirm my assessment".
After an opener like this, let you boss talk and see ...
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