We've all been there. It's review time. After the year awaited "wait until this next review to get you up to scale line" review, it went about just as i had a feeling it would. As a Tech Analyst + being jack of all trades with 5 yrs exp, according to all the stupid salary stats I should be about 50-60k. salary.com, dice, dept of labor. I mean the dept of labor!! The DOL info is based off of peoples tax returns, it has to be pretty accurate.
The boss slipped up and "you're at 38.. wait I mean 35.5" well, he's tipped his hat at what I was going to be offered/given as a raise. A bump up to 38. He asked what would be jumping for joy in the hall ways, acceptable, and lousy. My verbal responses were 55-60, 45-48, and anything less than 45k respectively. With the first part of the review done, I have to finish up the employee section and I'd like to come up with something tactful for th section labeled "Support I need to succeed". I'd like to add something that tactfully says "gimme my money, biaatch".
Again tactfully :)
And if I should even put it in there in the first place...
The only thing that made me stick around for the past year is, it IS a great company to work for but I got into the IS dept from a warehouse job (work and school fulltime) and it still seems as if I'm on that payscale. Arghh.
The only saving grace is I have a college friend who is a Lead IT head hunter at one of the larger companies in the nation. After telling her my responsibilities and what my pay was, she said I was being "hosed". She said I should (and could) be making at least 50k a year or more and it wouldn't take long for her to line up some possible companies. If it was any head hunter I didn't know I'd tell them to f*** off, but I have some faith in her since we hang out sometimes. Why ruin a friendship over job.
As it lay at the end of the review, my boss was going to "go to bat for me." (heard that before). And I was to finish up the employee sections of the review sheet. So any advice would be appreciated. If I don't get what I'm asking for, I have to play the role of Milton while secretly shopping out my resume.
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