Inbox: "Asked for a raise and was told it would increase my salary above more senior employees, so no." This is just a negotiating position. Your market value is not set by your number of days served in comparison to the nearest coworker, but by demonstrated business impact.
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“We both also know that it’ll cost you Z to recruit my replacement if I leave suddenly, and you’ll lose Q when your capability is reduced in the meantime, so you can factor that in to your new X to cause it to not happen.”
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The manager who sets your salary ceiling based on their own salary is not gonna listen to that argument now, are they?
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Boss: "You might really be worth Y. But if I pay you Y, it will cost me a lot more than Y. Yes, it is my problem. And not paying you Y is my (only) solution. Sorry."
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The cost of replacing an engineer makes this an extremely dubious argument.
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Hm, isn’t a lot of this about how the message is communicated? I could see a lot of developer/analytical types (myself included) badly messing that up. Not saying you need to give them, but maybe worth noting
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The biggest raise I ever received came after I got an offer from another company. I took the offer to my current employer at the time and they matched it and added a bit more. Would’ve taken several years of 2% raises to get that salary.
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I wanted more money at a job, say 1.1x what I was getting. I pushed and pushed, nothing happened. “Had coffee” and got an offer at 1.9x which they “couldn’t” match. I never would have taken the coffee meeting if they’d offered me 1.1x.
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Maybe I'm bad at asking, or maybe I've always worked for employers that are bad at judging value or the market, but I've never received a substantial raise (greater than 5%). However, I've gotten a 40% salary bump every time I've switched jobs.
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That's true in a lot of cases. Sometimes a position is only worth so much to the company because they perceive it only delivers value (at the desired margin) over the direct comp for the band assigned to the position. 1/2
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If an individual is delivering value far beyond the prescribed band for the position, the "right" way to improve compensation is to move them to a new position in an appropriate salary band. 2/2
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