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Topic: Knowing What You're Worth
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| dragonfly | Posted – 2/12/2008 12:28:19 AM | show profile I?m mentally preparing myself to ask for a raise and could use some input. I'm an editorial assistant working at a Web site that covers medical issues. At the moment I make $32,000, what I was offered when I was hired a year ago. My skills and responsibilities have increased significantly since I started, my hours are long (ordinarily I work 45-50 hours but sometimes I work as many as 70) and I think that even my hypercritical boss would grudgingly admit I'm doing a good job. Unfortunately, our company functions like a dysfunctional family. There's no annual reviews and getting a raise requires pitched battle. That means I need to decide how much to demand. How do I know what to ask for? And does anyone have any advice about asking aggressively, without letting things get unpleasant? |
| Upward Bound | Posted – 2/12/2008 10:46:19 AM | show profile I would advise thatyou stick to making arguments about your increased skills and responsibility and leave the long hours out of it. You shoud also probably ask for a promotion. Editorial Assistant jobs aren't meant to be long term and if you've improved as much as you say you have, you should be OK in an Assistant Editor position. If this dysfunctional company won't give you that, it's time to start looking elsewhere. In magazines at least (you didn't specify) it's often easier to make more money by jumping from company to company. No hard feelings as long as you don't burn bridges along the way. |
