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Does anyone know of any good websites where you can look at typical salaries for your area and profession? I'm thinking of speaking to my boss about a raise and want to have some information to provide him.
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I've heard that salary.com is inflated, but I used it to get an average. My job didn't really fit into any description I found, so I created a spreadsheet using a combination of several jobs and the different ranges.
I've also used Payscale.com, because it allows you to customize your role a bit. You can add education, # people managed, years experience, size of company, etc., and it produces a range. It will tell you the number of simplar positions in the area, and shows salary, bonus, total comp, etc.
I'm going through this process now. It's a long one at my huge, slow-moving company. I submitted my spreadsheet and back-up to my boss about 6 weeks ago, HR did their own study, and I found out yesterday that they agree that I am grossly underpaid. Let's see when/how this gets resolved...
Good luck!
Thank you for the suggestion. I really liked payscale.com because I was able to put in my professional license, which, in my field is a big salary separator. I regret not being well prepared when I originally negotiated my salary and now I'm paying for it (literally).
Good luck with your own negotiations, it sounds like you are getting close.
Just tried that and it was pretty much right on for both me and DH.
I work as a Compensation Analyst for a large government contractor. We consider up to 120% of the market as In the average/acceptable range. Yes, it's high but there are always circumstances as to why someone is paid higher than average (I.e. special skill set, etc). We also benchmark our jobs/salaries to our industry not across the board. A bank software engineer may be paid differently than a govt contractor sw engingeer.