YAJT: Got a job offer, lowball salary

[akubi]

good luck

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: WhiteKnight
Well, I decided to take the job at $50K with a review in April. It really seems like a great company with room to advance. I would have liked a higher starting salary but I don't feel cheated or anything. I guess that I should just bust my butt and prove myself in the next six months.

Thats the way to do it. :thumbsup:

Both sides have shown that they want to work together. Now show them that their faith in you was correct.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: WhiteKnight
Well, I decided to take the job at $50K with a review in April. It really seems like a great company with room to advance. I would have liked a higher starting salary but I don't feel cheated or anything. I guess that I should just bust my butt and prove myself in the next six months.

$25/hr aint bad for your first job.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: WhiteKnight
Well, I decided to take the job at $50K with a review in April. It really seems like a great company with room to advance. I would have liked a higher starting salary but I don't feel cheated or anything. I guess that I should just bust my butt and prove myself in the next six months.

$25/hr aint bad for your first job.

Beats the un-employment lines

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: WhiteKnight
Well, I decided to take the job at $50K with a review in April. It really seems like a great company with room to advance. I would have liked a higher starting salary but I don't feel cheated or anything. I guess that I should just bust my butt and prove myself in the next six months.

$25/hr aint bad for your first job.

Beats the un-employment lines

:thumbsup: and it's not too bad for many people with experience current jobs.

 

[WhiteKnight]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: WhiteKnight
Well, I decided to take the job at $50K with a review in April. It really seems like a great company with room to advance. I would have liked a higher starting salary but I don't feel cheated or anything. I guess that I should just bust my butt and prove myself in the next six months.

$25/hr aint bad for your first job.

Beats the un-employment lines

It certainly does. Thanks, everyone, for the thoughts and advice!

 

[rahvin]

Originally posted by: spidey07
But that is generally the case. Depending on the company raises are maxed at 2-3%.

I still maintain that the most important part of any career is negotiating starting salary.

That may be true in professions other than engineering but it is NOT true in engineering. Getting in a good job with good chance for advancement and training is the goal, salary should be secondary. If you don't get 10% raises your first five years you should find a job that's is willing to pay you appropriately. Engineering is, and always will be a different game than the other professions because experience means far more than education. In fact in some states you can still recieve a PE without an engineering degree.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: rahvin

Originally posted by: spidey07
But that is generally the case. Depending on the company raises are maxed at 2-3%.

I still maintain that the most important part of any career is negotiating starting salary.

That may be true in professions other than engineering but it is NOT true in engineering. Getting in a good job with good chance for advancement and training is the goal, salary should be secondary. If you don't get 10% raises your first five years you should find a job that's is willing to pay you appropriately. Engineering is, and always will be a different game than the other professions because experience means far more than education. In fact in some states you can still recieve a PE without an engineering degree.

Screw that. I'm in it for the money.

 

[rahvin]

And you can keep working for those companies that give 2-3% raises a year and I will keep increasing my salary at the rate of >6% a year like I have for the last decade.

 

[WhiteKnight]

Originally posted by: rahvin

Originally posted by: spidey07
But that is generally the case. Depending on the company raises are maxed at 2-3%.

I still maintain that the most important part of any career is negotiating starting salary.

That may be true in professions other than engineering but it is NOT true in engineering. Getting in a good job with good chance for advancement and training is the goal, salary should be secondary. If you don't get 10% raises your first five years you should find a job that's is willing to pay you appropriately. Engineering is, and always will be a different game than the other professions because experience means far more than education. In fact in some states you can still recieve a PE without an engineering degree.

Sounds good to me. 🙂

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Screw that. I'm in it for the money.

picked the wrong career then.

 

[Koing]

Good advice given here that I'll take on board when my time comes next year.

:thumbsup: everyone that contributed.

Koing

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: spidey07

Screw that. I'm in it for the money.

picked the wrong career then.

nah, I like what I do.

 

[saltedeggman]

Originally posted by: Koenigsegg
Job salaries are generally meant to be negotiated. Go read some guides.

not with the Big 4 (accounting), they do not negotiate AFAIK