> If you were going to quote sources for a salary increase, where would > you go look and wave around as a basis for an increase in salary?
Ummm, first, I'd go to my gmail account instead of my company account. :) OK, seriously... (although this won't sound serious either) the place I'd go is the payroll chart of the company. What I mean by this is that what some fellow in Poughkeepsie or Des Moines or Jacksonville or Hood River makes really isn't going to matter to the decision makers at YOUR company. What is going to matter is what they pay OTHER folks at YOUR company. You may be able to walk out the door and get 50% more two blocks down the street but if YOUR company doesn't feel that YOU are worth that much to THEM, they'll let you walk. Or even if they sorta, down deep, feel that you are worth that, but by giving you that much, you'd be making more than the owner of the company, well, you ain't gonna get it. :) So, really, maybe what you need to do is list all the goodness you've brought them over the last year, and then extrapolate that into all the greatness you're going to bring them in the future, and indicate that you're really worth more than you're getting paid. Of course, then having some general #s from whereever you've already looked to reassure them that you're not the only guy on the planet making those new, big numbers wouldn't hurt. But I wouldn't go into the meeting with that as your initial argument, just backup and reassurance. Whil (Who only has to negotiate with his roommate about how much money he gets to have.) _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
