Watch: It’s your right to share your salary, not doing so could be holding you back.
At my last company, one day someone in accounting approached me at lunch and quietly told me I need to ask for a raise because I was way underpaid.
They gave me a number to shoot for. It was about twice than what I had been making at the time.
So I went online, did some research, found some figures backing up my claim, put it all together and went to my boss.
I got what I asked for.
If it hadn’t been for that person in accounting telling me I was way underpaid, I’d have never known. I went from barely scraping by to being able to have a savings account and getting all my debts paid thanks to them.
You should at least check sites like salary.com to start the process of seeing what you should be making.
Because this is crucially important
All true.
But it’s also true that women (and, I’m willing to bet, minorities) are denied and punished more often for attempting to negotiate better salaries.
This is one of the reasons having that research and evidence handy is important, and especially why sharing salary information is so very important.
If you can go to them and say, “This is what other people in my position or other people with my experience/accomplishments are earning, and I want a competitive wage,” then they know that if they DON’T agree, you’ve got a case you can press against them.
glassdoor.com is another good site for this kind of research. But it’s good to know what other people in the same company are making, because it’s also true that pay scales can be different across different companies and industries.
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