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So some of you know my struggles in the job market. Since I am having no luck there I am now in the process of negotiating for a BIG pay raise at my current job. Any pointers on what I should do? I spoke to the CEO about this, after I just finished a project that would have cost them $1200 with a contractor, and he said I should write something up and we'll talk to the board about it. So how do I explain to a board of very religious/non-technical people my value to the agency?
We don't get annual raises. The agency has NOT given out raises in over a decade. But I was hired as a IT Technician and now do the same job duties that a sysadmin does. Even though I do not have that title my salary is on the LOWER END of what a IT Technician makes. This has to change. I'm planning on getting a condo, married, and a PhD in the next five years. I cannot support that on a salary in the $30Ks. I know industry averages are in the $60K-$75K range, but I'd be happy with $55-60K.
The caveat here is that charities are usually suckers for pay raises, because you are supposed to love the work you do. I do love the work I do, but the charity is not very technical and it's up to me to be the jack-of-all trades. Their focus is not technology based and therefore the position has hindered my efforts to become at other more corporate jobs with specialized software we cannot afford.
It's rather odd that you're having trouble in the current job market -- the country is, after all, facing less than structural unemployment, thus making it a job-seekers' market.So some of you know my struggles in the job market. Since I am having no luck there I am now in the process of negotiating for a BIG pay raise at my current job. Any pointers on what I should do? I spoke to the CEO about this, after I just finished a project that would have cost them $1200 with a contractor, and he said I should write something up and we'll talk to the board about it. So how do I explain to a board of very religious/non-technical people my value to the agency?
We don't get annual raises. The agency has NOT given out raises in over a decade. But I was hired as a IT Technician and now do the same job duties that a sysadmin does. Even though I do not have that title my salary is on the LOWER END of what a IT Technician makes. This has to change. I'm planning on getting a condo, married, and a PhD in the next five years. I cannot support that on a salary in the $30Ks. I know industry averages are in the $60K-$75K range, but I'd be happy with $55-60K.
The caveat here is that charities are usually suckers for pay raises, because you are supposed to love the work you do. I do love the work I do, but the charity is not very technical and it's up to me to be the jack-of-all trades. Their focus is not technology based and therefore the position has hindered my efforts to become at other more corporate jobs with specialized software we cannot afford.
It's rather odd that you're having trouble in the current job market -- the country is, after all, facing less than structural unemployment, thus making it a job-seekers' market.
Red:
What are the firm's annual revenues? I don't much care, but having run my own firm and later run a practice unit of a global firm, I can say that were an employee of mine to make a case for a raise based on having saved my original or later firm $1200, that employee wouldn't have a leg to stand on, most especially not for a "BIG pay raise."
I think you're better off making a qualitative case based on your having consistently exceeded the defined expectations of your role and having periodic reviews that document your having done so. Additionally, you may be able to make the case that you are currently underpaid give whatever is normal/scale for the position and work you have been performing. To do that, however, you'll need to research what the pay ranges are for folks having jobs similar to your own and in similarly sized firms in the same industry and geography.
Danger Will Robinson!
Why are you spending so much time blogging and at DP when you need to be out hustling? That is the first thing, the second is that you are at a place where you can very easily talk yourself out of the job you have...tread lightly.
Research and documentation
Write up a detailed job description of what you do as part of your job. Find a similar job and record what they do. Then find the pay scale for jobs in that sector from low to high. Focus on the median and average. Present them with that info and state what you would like and that you really like working there and would like to continue
I am generally not online in the afternoons, when I am free to do so. However, I can't take off work for interviews all the time, but it's not like I get them all that much anyway.
So some of you know my struggles in the job market. Since I am having no luck there I am now in the process of negotiating for a BIG pay raise at my current job. Any pointers on what I should do? I spoke to the CEO about this, after I just finished a project that would have cost them $1200 with a contractor, and he said I should write something up and we'll talk to the board about it. So how do I explain to a board of very religious/non-technical people my value to the agency?
We don't get annual raises. The agency has NOT given out raises in over a decade. But I was hired as a IT Technician and now do the same job duties that a sysadmin does. Even though I do not have that title my salary is on the LOWER END of what a IT Technician makes. This has to change. I'm planning on getting a condo, married, and a PhD in the next five years. I cannot support that on a salary in the $30Ks. I know industry averages are in the $60K-$75K range, but I'd be happy with $55-60K.
The caveat here is that charities are usually suckers for pay raises, because you are supposed to love the work you do. I do love the work I do, but the charity is not very technical and it's up to me to be the jack-of-all trades. Their focus is not technology based and therefore the position has hindered my efforts to become at other more corporate jobs with specialized software we cannot afford.
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