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What sort of salary increase should I ask for (details inside)?
First, I'm currently employed. My current assignment is about to end on Friday (2011/09/30) and up until about a week ago, I was facing a layoff notice. I had been looking internal for positions for a while and eventually started looking external. Since the start of my search, I finally found and was approved for a position that is closer to my home. This will be a lateral move as far as pay is concerned. Here comes the heart of the question. One of the external job searches I did is looking very much like they will offer a position. The external offer is a slightly different position but moves me somewhat into a manager role, which could further my career path.
Internal position: Software Engineer - Developing web applications for presenting various data sources Position is about 20 minutes away from where I live.
External position: Product Engineer - Enhancing commercial product capabilities, technical lead for developers, responding to proposals, interaction with standards organizations. Position is about 60 minutes away from where I live.
If I'm making approximately 100K (not including company covered benefits, which I'd still need to factor in) now with the internal position, what would be a reasonable request for the external position?
Just adding that I have the internal position and start this Monday. At this time, I have no urgent need to find external employment but if the interview goes well and they ask my salary requirement, I'd like to have a reasonable figure to give them. I wouldn't have gone looking for this position, but since I did, I'd like to at least follow through on the process and make a decision that will benefit my family.
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- 10 years agoFavorite Answer
Try to put off that conversation as long as you can, even asking them what their range for the position is. I've found that seldom works however, so I've always started w/ +10-15% of my current total package and then made it clear that I could be flexible.
Mostly they've said "okay," but a few have then come back and said their maximum is ...x and asked if I could work with that (lower than whatever I've just asked for. I'm assuming that if their figure was higher they've just said "okay".) After that it just depends on how much better the position is and whether you can live with x.
Source(s): Recent job seeker.
