Few employers can put a dollar value on a single developers contribution to company revenue.
Even if you were making trainers in a Nike shoe factory, where your daily output could be measured precisely, your pay would still be limited by what it would cost for your employer to replace you. Your employer may consider the marketing and sales of the product to be much more valuable than the creation of it and so be biased that way. There are no hard and fast rules for negotiating pay. I think it often has a lot to do with perceptions, emotions and things that don't necessarily relate to your performance. - Mike On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Nathan de Vries <nat...@atnan.com> wrote: > On 04/04/2010, at 5:32 PM, Mikel Lindsaar wrote: > >>> I think the "what should I be paid?" question really doesn't relate to > job > >>> title at all - you should be asking "what would I be paid if I moved > >>> elsewhere?" (which is almost always more than you are currently > getting) > > > > I think this reasoning is flawed. > > > > The real question anyone should be asking is "How much value do I > > bring to this organisation, and is my pay packet commensurate with > > that?". > > > The question of whether you're valuable to your employer is orthogonal to > whether or not you're being paid market rates. > > If your employer can't generate more income from you than your market rate, > they should find a replacement who's within their budget. If you're not > being paid market rates and a raise is out of the question, you should > consider moving on. > > > Cheers, > > Nathan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rails-oceania%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
