Thread: Salary range?

help for what? are you asking what you should be making? Are they paying you $14 and you want $20?

Teacher in texas, or at least in houston, are starting at $40-$45, which is at or more than $20 an hour....and that would be if they worked 12 months out of the year.

Did you try using http://salary.com/ and http://www.payscale.com/ as starting points?

What you get paid is reflective on what your title is. So, on salary.com, go by the titles that you think you are qualified to do.

If you've been working for these guys, doing the kind of work you'd be doing with your BS....then you can consider that to be years of experience, and use that to determine what job titles you should be seeking.

In this market, you take the money and keep your job. But, you also never stop looking for the next gig. Ever. Be discrete, since most employers don't like to know you are playing the field. Also, when an opportunity comes, be sure to give your employer a heads up, and give them the chance to reasonably counter. At least close to even money with the new job, if not more depending on the opportunity.

There's only two people that deserve your loyalty without earning it. Your kid, and your dog. Everyone else.....is a two way street. If they want you, then they'll pay you what your worth. But you're only worth what you can make (from someone elses offer).

So....hopefully you'll get a raise. If you don't....it's not the end of the world. But no matter what you get, you get your resume together, get it submitted to online sites like careerbuilder and places recruiters are looking, get your job search notificiations set up to give you weekly reports to send out apps for....and never stop looking.

If the word on the street is that you should be making between $14 and $20, then your employer needs to know that, and know that you know that. If you've got a god relationship wtih them, that can work for, and against you. You deserve more, but you also don't want to burden a company you're "friends" with inflated salary expectations and make them have to drop you. So....balance that.

Nothing less than $15. Nothing more than $20.

the other good thing about your line of experience is that you can run the books for a LOT of restaurants, and not just one. So, ask your employer if they know some people that could use a guy like you, vouch for you, etc. Tell him you're looking to make more by working more. That will then tell him that you deserve to get paid more, and/or that he should find some friends of his to refer you some hours here and there.

never stop. more money.

Originally Posted by rock_lobster

Good advice. My "boss", isn't really my boss per-se. She is basically a CPA who has various clients. I was referred to her by a friend and she actually is constantly receiving new clients and needs help with the accounting work, so I definitely have the hook up in that regard for now. She is also ridiculous with quickbooks, and I am getting tons upon tons of valuable training with that program as well as with accounting in general.

Very helpful advice BD, it is much appreciated.

yet another reason to stay. you'll see in the spring (or this summer) how many of your friends have no job, and will have no job, for months on end. Business majors are a dime a dozen. And though your skills are relevant....it's the surplus of those with these skills flooding the market, combined with 10% unemployment making it that much more difficult.

So.....if you want more money (and I would think finishing your degree means you deserve more money...no employer would think that to be unreasonable), then ask for more money, and explain what those ranges are based on (salary.com is a good one...not "my friend said he makes $25 an hour, and I want $30).

What you're also getting paid in, it seems, is access to new clients. Potential customers, but also EMPLOYERS. As the weeks, and months, and years go by, having those email addresses and cell numbers, and face recogntion with these people is what's going to ensure not only that you get better jobs and more money, but that you STAY EMPLOYED.

At the end of the day, you are just a first year out of college nobody with a degree. There's a lot of people like you, including those who graduated ahead of you that still haven't gotten a job, as well as those a few years ahead of you, if not a few decades, who have lost their job. And not only do they have degrees, but extensive experience, and contacts, and networking, and resumes.

So....know your place. Get your shit taken care of. Apply for jobs. Get used to the process. What's bullshit, and what's not. What works and what doesn't.

Make that money.