5 Keys to Increasing Your Pay

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You may want to try asking for similar perks (i.e. raise, time off, or professional development class/seminar) three times.
Just be sure to know you want it, deserve it, and it is a good fit for your company's core values.
You may be surprised at your results! Good luck!!

Havier of MI 8:34PM May 13, 2008

You all do realize this is casual journalism, right? This is not a business periodical addressing the pay and opportunity variance across small, midsize and large size corporations. This is a generalization. This is simply casual suggestions that may be helpful or one might find interesting. I myself have used some of the above noted tactics and they have been successful.

michelle of CA 7:03PM May 13, 2008

All great tips if you happen to work for a company with multiple levels of structure where you have the opportunity to move around internally.. But try to imagine a small company where the bottom line is in the pockets of the family owners. A company where the owners all live in a gated community and the rest of the employees struggle to pay rising bills without getting raises for a number of years. A company where your review is filled out by yourself then you sit down to discuss it and you get told that everyhting you put down is too expensive for the company. I imagine the author of the article wouldn't spend too much time at a business that ran the way I described.

Keith of KS 11:45AM April 28, 2008

I was going to write the same thing as M Crider. After reading the first bullet point I decided against reading the rest of the article, due to the continuous referral to the boss as "he" or "him." If a writer cant get basic journalism rules down, the credibility of the advice given flies out the window. And I dont entirely blame the author, but I assume there are editors on staff who should know better...very disappointing.

D. Kelly of NY 10:52AM April 28, 2008

I was going to write the same thing as M Crider. After reading the first bullet point I decided against reading the rest of the article, due to the continuous referral to the boss as "he" or "him." If a writer cant get basic journalism rules down, the credibility of the advice given flies out the window. And I dont entirely blame the author, but I assume there are editors on staff who should know better...very disappointing.

D. Kelly of NY 10:49AM April 28, 2008

It is unfortunate that the author always refers to the boss in this article as male. I notice this writing style since as a male myself, all my bosses have been women --women that are frequently underpaid compared to the males at their same level. It is therefore very difficult to discuss fair compensation with them.

M Crider of CO 1:19PM April 23, 2008