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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, if you want more money, you will never get it the way you are going about it. You don't ask for more money because you NEED it. You ask for more money because you EARNED it.

You have to put together a compelling reason for the firm to pay you more than you make now. What makes you valuable? What have you done that adds to their bottom line in terms of efficiency, effectiveness, customer service, building work relationships for/with your boss, etc? If you don't have an objective reason that you should be paid more, it's not the right time to ask. Have a plan for making yourself more valuable to the firm and then act on it and ask later.

I hate to say it, but [b]run-of-the-mill legal assistants are a dime a dozen in DC.[/b] You don't have any leverage unless you become more than run-of-the-mill in your boss's eyes. Once you're indispensible, you have all sorts of bargaining power to ask for more money.

And stop with the comparison of your boss's salary to yours.[b] He probably works his ass off for that salary - and he chose a career that has high income potential, and became indispensible enough to be selected as a partner. It's obnoxious that he complains about money to you, but his salary has no bearing on yours.[/b][/quote]

I agree with this, especially the bolded parts.  I think the OP sounds totally entitled.  Yes. it's obnoxious that he complains, but bottom line is, he is much more valuable to the firm than you are. [b] I don't expect my salary to be a percentage of/related to my boss's [/b]- it's an independent calculation based on my own merits and comps of others who do what I do.[/quote]

OP here.  I don't expect my salary to be a percentage of/related to my boss.  Where did I ever say that?  And, I was NOT trying to say my boss doensn't deserve his salary.  He works very hard for it and totally deserves it.  I was only meaning to say, how can someone who finds it hard to live off that much money, and constantly complains about it,  say that what I make is "a lot".  [/quote]

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