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- missus_dita
need some advice. I've been offered a promo at work but I'm yet to agree my T&Cs of my contract and my salary!
I'm currently a traffic manager (insert your jokes here! Warning I have heard them all before btw!!) in the Design Studio of a print/markering company and I will be promoted to Studio Manager.
Not sure what to ask for salary wise, any advice on how to tackle this? thank you :o)
- canuck0
56k
- Or at least a cable modemmoldero
- ISDN ftw!Continuity
- daftSteveJobs
- aanderton0
Can you not get in touch with the previous Studio Manager, if there was one, and ask what he was on?
- vaxorcist0
will you be suddenly responsible for a lot more? more weekends, more freakout phone calls at the last minute? make the case that this is taking up more of your life, therefore you're worth at least 15 - 20% more to the company...
Also, the classic salary negotiation tactic is to ask them what they think, then wait a loooong time, with a total pocker face after they respond, so that they probably raise the offer just a bit.... if you think it's too low, you can counter with your explanation, and your offer, if it's higher than you would have asked for, you can just be very poker-faced and agree to it without them knowing you might have asked for less....
If you're management now, you may have different rules now too, like no more overtime pay on those last-minute all-night jobs,etc.. so make it clear to them that your new pay should reflect that....
Note that since you work there now, they know you, that's a plus in a way... you're vetted already.... but it also means they can tell if you're trying to put on an act too hard in your negotiations....
- utopian0
50-75k
- monospaced0
$190K and some company benefits
- Amicus0
60k plus:
Free lunches every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. A corner office with a snooker of ping pong table, a working Streetfighter 2 arcade game, weekly shoulder massages, dental, health and Saturday morning golf lessons with Tiger Woods.PS: You could probably ask for, but won't get, an assurance that the office will not use Comic Sans, Papyrus or Marker Felt.
- jon_d0
What is a traffic manager doing on QBN? Are you into design? Or .. just ... ahem... traffic?
- jon_d0
Oh and by the way if they don't give you a corner office and free weekly massages, throw a fit.
- zaq0
- CanHasQBN0
Traffic Manager? What do you do all day? This sounds like an easy job.
- duhsign0
38,000
- vaxorcist0
two traffic managers at a previous gig saved our company quite a few times... and they were both waaay more creative than the gig's job description.... they did have the ability to kick ass and take names and be able to call printers and force them to redo jobs if the printer screwed up.... and the ability to hound clients into finally giving up the catalog writing stuff.... basically, they both could make recalcitrant people actually do things, which saved our butts many a time.....
- OSFA0
Hey hey, never underestimate the power of a good traffic manager. It can make you or break you as an agency.
With that said, it all depends. If you are male: 75K if you are female 45K.
JUUUUST KIDDING!
- k_temp0
Just out of curiousity, what's a traffic manager?
- dMullins0
How the hell do some of you not know what a traffic manager is. No agency experience?
- vaxorcist0
honestly, I think having traffic manager on a resume is a huge plus.... I also think that Creative Directors and even Art Directors should spend some time being a traffic manager, as some CD's really need to remember how stuff actually gets done...