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Salary negotiation |
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But..... |
| Date Posted: |
01/10/2006 |
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If you have skills your MD/practice needs, you have some room.
Get an accurate figure of what you are worth, for example, if you were to bail to another firm or (gasp!) go into a real job.
Then, present it to your manager (he might divert to you the MD...or offer to go to bat for you with the MD, which is good) and say what you think you are worth.
They won't show you the door for doing that; however, dont go in with "I got an offer for $120k and I want $120k"... Worst case, if you're at $80k, say you've found offers for $100k, but want to stay with the firm, and understand the firm's rate for what I do isnt $100k, but 90.. etc etc. I did that, and was it was honest (I was enjoying my job at the time), and it ended well.
Enjoy. |
| Message: |
But also realize they will always be watching you and leadership will take that into account. My experience has been that if you were happy at what you were doing you wouldn't be looking. You can always get a higher paying job, look at what is making you want to leave. Unless that is going to be fixed, you might as well take the money and try a different company.
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