Is a 10 percent raise enough for a promotion?
A 10 percent pay increase can feel disappointing when you received a 7 percent raise just for a standard performance review without a title change. This leaves you torn between taking the principal developer role you spent two years manifesting and wondering if the compensation actually matches the new level of responsibility.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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Is a 10 percent raise enough for a promotion?
- 1Accepting the lower pay increase to secure the job title for future career leverageDid this help you?
- 2Looking for better opportunities elsewhereDid this help you?
- 3following general personal finance flowchartsDid this help you?
- 4putting bonuses straight into high yield savingsDid this help you?
- 5increasing taxable account contributionsDid this help you?
- 6Using online salary guides like Robert HalfDid this help you?
- 7Checking Glassdoor for comparable positions at similar-sized companiesDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“When time comes when my trainer leaves, I don’t know how much I should ask hourly as someone who is going to be doing all the financial stuff in the company.”source ↗
“I don’t want to come across being demanding with my compensation but I also don’t want to sell myself short and for the amount of work im going to be doing.”source ↗