In our turn Wage storiesWomen with long -term career experience open for the most familiar details of their work: compensation. It is a honest look at how real people navigate the complex world of negotiation, increases, promotions and loss of jobs, hoping to give young people more picture of how to support themselves – and perhaps take over some dangers along the way.
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Age: 30
Location: Washington, DC area
Current Industry and Job Title:
Superior sales engineer, technology
Current salary: $ 200,000
Number of years employed by school or university: Eight
Salary boot: $ 21,000 in 2015
Larger salary jump: My salary jumped by $ 67,000 when I changed my career from the consultation ($ 120,000) on a sales engineer for a technology company ($ 187,000 with stock subsidies).
Higher wage decline: N/a
Greater trading regret: I wish I had negotiated my current salary more. I am very happy with my remuneration, however, a friend of mine who joined my company in my same role two months after negotiating their salary and resulted in a higher basic salary for them. I was so excited that I was offered the salary I was, I got it! Lesson he learned: Always negotiate, never feel guilty of your success.
Best wage tips: It is not worth staying in a job in a toxic environment only in the hope that you can get a slightly higher salary with your next increase. It is usually more reasonable to start considering other jobs, which will probably lead to more pay and possibly a better experience. Also, be careful about signing bonuses! Get to know the repayment terms. The company usually has a clause. If you leave your role within two years of signing the contract and accepted a sign for the bonus, you must refund the full amount of the point in the bonus, including the tax.
I stayed with my parents after college and after mid -summer, my parents set a harsh deadline: move out of work day. I was very inexperienced and I had no idea what I had to live in, and $ 21,000 looked like a very new grad!
I had moved with three roommates. I was quite financially broke, I even worked two jobs for a while (one part -time over my full employment) to pay off debt. I tried to negotiate my mark on a full -time salary in my full -time work and they told me no.
It was a small company with a growing customer base and as I hit my target measurements I could wait to move on to the next position. Promotion roles were quite clear and the trail was relatively fast for the lower level consultants. I got another standard adjustment hit one year later to $ 62,000.
They gave me an increase of $ 10,000 on the spot and left this meeting incredibly overwhelmed and grateful! I accepted the first offer as it was so unexpected and used the money to place my savings so that my standard of living has not changed in any way.
I had continued to perform well and meet my measurements, so I was fighting for this offer for the first time. I worked closely with my manager to create a case and describe my business contributions, as well as their benefit to the growing portfolio of the company. It was well worth it. While promotion felt well, I was still ready for something new.
However, they destroyed me with the assurance I could apply for promotion within the year. Unfortunately, this role started shortly before the Covid pandemic began and I quickly found all the things I had left my previous job (such as a larger team of peer, personal opportunities, customer trips) was waiting indefinitely. And guess what – so were the promotions!
In addition, the job was brutal, as it was in high stress, high pressure on a large consulting company. I quickly became very stressful and unhappy, but with the pandemic that happened, I felt like I had to stay. In addition, I had accepted a bonus of $ 10,000 and left before my two -year commitment, it would mean that I would have to pay it back. Although I only got $ 6,000 after tax, I would have to pay full $ 10,000.
The remuneration was not worth it. I felt incredibly drained and anxious and the environment was difficult. The urgency has always been very high, but we did not see the impact of our work as the projects we are working often were never implemented. Lack of meaning and stress have led me to really understand that money does not buy happiness, nor a classy job.
I felt like I was not worth the increase in income at first. It was a sum of money that changed life that would really allow me to become more secure, but the level of the cheats syndrome I felt was intense. The stock subsidy will deal with four years, while 25% will register each year, so each year, after my first full year, $ 10,250 will be paid to my stock market in the company.
Honestly, I don’t know how I got an increase in wages in the lay offs. I received a moderate increase in value for my contributions to the business, which were immediately measurable from the amount of capital I created for the company. Another moment of feeling very unwanted and guilty. There was a lot of survivor. I am not passionate, or even interested in technology, but I am good at my role and I am rewarded according to it.
I think it’s time to start thinking about the jobs and roles I will enjoy more, but – even if it comes with reducing pay, because the most successful I am – and the most money I make, the more trapped I feel even if I am so incredibly grateful and I love my colleagues.
I don’t know what I will look at the next professionally and I’m afraid to make a change. I have learned from this trip that money is buying a lot of things, but it does not buy purpose or meaning if money and material profit is not a value that is close to your heart.
I always thought that “why” would be a family, but that hasn’t been implemented for me yet. It’s time to think in the long run and find the “why” now. But sometimes it feels like it’s too late to change.
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