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Re: Ask HN: Salary Increases Over Time

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The phrasing bandied about where I currently work is: "You are doing the same job as last year, so your pay should be the same adjusted for inflation. If you want more money, you need to be taking on more responsibility, growing your role."

You are doing the same job as last year, except with a whole nother year's worth of experience .

very off topic, but i've always wondered whether 'nother' was an acceptable word to use.

Re: Ask HN: Salary Increases Over Time

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The best advice I can give is - try to estimate how much you are worth to a company. It can be fairly complicated, but understanding what you bring to the table can not only give you peace of mind but can also increase your salary.

It's your career. Own it. Let your employer know you own it. Any good employer will support you.

Re: Ask HN: Salary Increases Over Time

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The phrasing bandied about where I currently work is: "You are doing the same job as last year, so your pay should be the same adjusted for inflation. If you want more money, you need to be taking on more responsibility, growing your role."

You are doing the same job as last year, except with a whole nother year's worth of experience .

This is less relevant than it seems, except for "leaning" experience (for example, familiarity with a system)

You won't grow by staying in the confort zone. And that's what most people do.

Re: Ask HN: Salary Increases Over Time

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post #7

Experience to date has been that without promotion, pay-rises within a company have always trailed inflation. So either you get promoted, and at that point you've negotiated a substantial raise (to offset the real decline in earnings and to protect your actual earnings in the years after the payrise)... Or... You go get a job elsewhere. It's a sad fact that the majority of real pay rises that I've ever seen, and that…

South African too

Can confirm.

Re: Ask HN: Salary Increases Over Time

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are doing the same job as last year, except with a whole nother year's worth of experience .

very off topic, but i've always wondered whether 'nother' was an acceptable word to use.

no native english speaker here, but i guess "a whole 'nother" would be correct. but let people be lazy when typing online. actually i guess you'd also need to switch the words to be gramatically correct: "another whole year"

Re: Ask HN: Salary Increases Over Time

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are doing the same job as last year, except with a whole nother year's worth of experience .

This is less relevant than it seems, except for "leaning" experience (for example, familiarity with a system) You won't grow by staying in the confort zone. And that's what most people do.

It depends on your level of experience before. If you have 20 years experience, 1 more is probably negligible. If you are an entry level new starter, 1 year is massive.

Re: Ask HN: Salary Increases Over Time

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The phrasing bandied about where I currently work is: "You are doing the same job as last year, so your pay should be the same adjusted for inflation. If you want more money, you need to be taking on more responsibility, growing your role."

You are doing the same job as last year, except with a whole nother year's worth of experience .

Experience is secondary. It's only any good to your employer if it increases the value you provide.

Re: Ask HN: Salary Increases Over Time

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

very off topic, but i've always wondered whether 'nother' was an acceptable word to use.

no native english speaker here, but i guess "a whole 'nother" would be correct. but let people be lazy when typing online. actually i guess you'd also need to switch the words to be gramatically correct: "another whole year"

native english speaker here, and I grant that english is flexible enough that such things are largely a matter of opinion, but "nother" bugs me. I would write 'other with the apostrophe used to indicate the mixing of "a whole other" and "another" into 'other. I would pronounce it "other" if I was thinking, but possibly "nother" if I was being sloppy.

Re: Ask HN: Salary Increases Over Time

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are doing the same job as last year, except with a whole nother year's worth of experience .

very off topic, but i've always wondered whether 'nother' was an acceptable word to use.

It seems like a horrible mangling of syntax. I don't see why you wouldn't simply say "...another whole year of experience..."

Re: Ask HN: Salary Increases Over Time

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are doing the same job as last year, except with a whole nother year's worth of experience .

Experience is secondary. It's only any good to your employer if it increases the value you provide.

I think not; from what I've seen, just moving to another company unfortunately makes you suddenly worth more.

I've seen that first hand with more than a couple of friends: people who remained in the same company saw a much less significant raise over time (10 years) than people who changed 2 or 3 times of company in the same timespan.

This is unfortunate but it seems to be a fairly common pattern (at least here in France), including getting much higher offers from companies which you left one year ago partly because you could not get raises.

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