Win-With-Money t1_jacyqg7 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 3:28 PM

Have you received any raises since you have taken on more work currently?

If not that needs to be addressed. Your salary requirements need to be adjusted depending on how much work you will be taking on.

This an extreme example to keep my math simple: if you had to double your hours and/or workload, you should receive AT LEAST double your income (not accounting for bonus or overtime).

If you have to take on 1 or 2 extra client projects then you can factor that in much easier to your pay requirements.

Edit: I also forgot to mention that you are a valuable resource to this company. Even more so since other engineers have left. You have more leverage here. Whatever you decide to do, be confident and stick to your decision.

zaggie16 OP t1_jad0ufc wrote on February 28, 2023 at 3:42 PM

I have not received any raises since these changes, and I think this discussion is to remedy that. I can directly quantify the projects that I took over from others, but need to look back to see what a "normal" workload would have been, as it fluctuates by project size and timeline. We are also entering a busy year, that is hard to factor in. Additionally, I did just receive my license, so it is hard to judge what my baseline workload was before to what it is expected to be now. I'll look into all these factors, and try to come up with a % more work that I am doing to look for.

Would it be a bad idea to discuss with some co-workers that I trust what kind of baseline to think about and what that compensation would be?

Win-With-Money t1_jad1rn8 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 3:48 PM

I think that is a great idea to discuss this with trusted co-workers. Maybe even contact someone in a related field to see what they think outside of your firm.

zaggie16 OP t1_jad2mxq wrote on February 28, 2023 at 3:54 PM

Awesome, I will do that. Sadly a lot of my closest coworkers are the ones leaving, but I have some others that are good people that I can have these discussions with. My best friend is also in an adjacent industry, so I'm going to pick his brain for information.

Honestly, I'm kind of closest with the people above me at this point, so I probably need to start thinking like them in some ways too. That also bodes well for my value and their desire to keep me around. I've only heard positive things from higher ups when things are discussed. I'm definitely trying to keep my sporits up about all this work by looking at it as an opportunity to show off within this company.