Salary question
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- shellin
Question, NT'ers. When you all have looked for new jobs in the past or present, how do you figure out how much more money to ask for compared to your previous job? I feel like I have a good salary now, and sometimes get paranoid that if I ask for too much more, I will hurt my chances of getting a new job. At the same time, I don't want to sell myself short either.
What do you think?
- _salisae_0
AIGA has a good resource for salary questions.
i'd get the link for you but i'm real lazy right now. just had a big plate of macaroni and cheese .... mmmmmmmm
be like jazx and go for the big bucks
- nice-land0
good question, I feel like I've outbid myself lately at a couple of job opps. I've been making great money at my contract position lately and I know I won't make the same at a full time gig. Hard to say but incremental increases would be nice.
- shellin0
Nice-land, I think we chatted before. I posted for an SF happy hour, but I got lazy, and never followed through. Have you been freelancing for awhile? I have been fulltime interactive designer/art director at Grey for the past four years. I am starting to feel like a change is in store for me, but just having a hard time getting motivated to go out and do it again. Maybe because it has been so long, and I am getting more lazy with age.
- shellin0
Thanks Salisae! This will help for sure.
Thank god for your burst of energy ;)
- _salisae_0
np my friend np :)
good luck with your job
- nice-land0
shellin
yep we were talking about a nt sf drinks but it was around the holiday or something. there was some talk earlier this week about doing something next week.
To answer you question, Ive been freelancing for roughly three years but for the last year I've been working at contracts in house for several companies plus doing my own thing at home at night and the weekends for personal clients and studios/agencies. I've had several interviews recently so I'm waiting to find out on those. My current contract may run out soon.
- 5timuli0
I always thought that 1k per year of your life was a good equation to work by... but now I think it migh be more realistic to go by years of life*0.75. If that makes sense?
(according to recent research by me, estimated 5yrs experience, heavy workload and alcohol problem)
- CyBrainX0
No, $1k per year would be an insult if you stayed at the same job in the same position. It wouldn't even be a cost of living increase.
Try to get at least several thousand more for a new company.
$10k if it were the 90s