Salary Raise When switching jobs

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Each job move I've made has resulted in a pretty substantial pay jump. 28k (reporters don't get paid!) to 40k. 55k to 75k. 75k to 90k.

I would love to say it was because of negotiating skills, but I don't know that I am a stellar negotiator. Somewhere during these processes, I just put out the range of numbers that I wanted... and waited for a response. In each case, no one balked.

nice, maybe luck?

PP here. I think luck always has something to do with it. But also, I didn't apologize, or put lots of qualifiers or stumble or backtrack. (I think these are the stereotypical "womenly" things to negotiating salary.)

Interestingly, when I was on the hiring end recently, I was very frustrated at the way people would respond when I asked them what they wanted to make. I wanted to tell the women in particular to stop being shy about it. Stop telling me what you are making now or what you made before. Just tell me what you believe you are worth. If I balk, then say you are flexible and care about the whole package. Out of about 16 people I interviewed, the vast majority responded in a way that didn't put them in as strong of a position as it could have. One was hostile to the question. So there's my anecdata. Would be interesting to hear HR Bitch's take.

I think that's more because candidates are usually told not to share salary numbers with prospective employers or not to act like they are greedy and in there jsut for the money, so I guess this is one of the situations where you're doomed if you do, doomed if you don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:55k to 85K - but I was vague on previous salary.
100K to 160K - told them what I wanted, not what I was being paid.

What do you do for a living?