Background: company that up until recently has paid us for operational support is now working on establishing the sama capability. They’ve been relying on us for this for roughly five years, but the agreement expired this summer.

The situation:

  • My current job isn’t fun anymore
  • I enjoy working with the systems that the poachers are using
  • I’m objectively good at it
  • I’d love to move over

So I was asked what my salary expectations/demands are to move over, where I’d be doing pretty much the same thing I do now. How much % raise should I aim for compared to what I have now?

UPDATE: I asked for my current salary + 10%, in addition to a few perks. Without the perks they’ll have to go higher than 10%.

  • purpleball@lemmy.tancomps.net
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    1 year ago

    I did similar. I asked for double my previous salary, figuring that’s absurd. They told me that’s too low for the position, so they gave me 5 grand more than what I asked for. Clearly I could have gotten substantially more.

    But the way I look at it is I got a very high salary that I wasn’t expecting, and the company feels like they got a deal. Win - win situation, right?