On 8/27/2011 6:49 AM, Luke S. Crawford wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 08:27:03PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
When you're on the market, how do you determine your own value?
What I'm getting now plus 20%.
I think, particularly in this day and age, 20% changes in the US market
is pretty much out of the question, unless you are seriously underpaid
already. And, even then, by the time it gets to HR, they'll probably
bring it down anyway. Laterals or 10% are probably the best you'll
normally find (yes, I know, someone out there will tell me they got
200%....). There's a lot of talent out there and a lot of cost cutting
going on. I've noticed a great deal of downward pressure on salaries
since the .com bubble, particularly with larger shops doing a lot of
off-shoring and the offshore talent coming up to speed.
When I was looking around here in Columbus, I was finding most places
wanted me to take a 15-20% cut. Even the contracts were barely even to
what I was currently making, and in many cases less. I got lucky
finding an out of town company that offered me about 12% raise (and an
annual bonus targeted at 20% tied directly to our organizations sales,
so should be a guarantee of at least 15%; if we miss our numbers that
bad, we'll probably all be looking for new jobs), but warned me I could
travel up to 75%. So far, only one short assignment included travel and
only 66% at that.
-spp
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