Another B.S. article about negotiating IT salary's.
If IT salary's kept pace back before the Dot bomb days everyone would be making 150k starting.
Here is why we don't
IT has for the most part never been a money maker of a lot of companies. They see it as a loss leader.
IT is seen as the "Oh boy here comes the IT budget again."
Unless of course your business is making software for the masses. But then I have been at 3 companies like that and IT was always the first on the chopping block.
You are paid only as much as it takes to replace you, unless you walk on water then you should be at Google or FaceBook.
The only way to get a 20 to 25k raise is to find another job. Unless of course you are doing the job of 4 people which in IT 99.9% of the times you are.
Don't believe me? Go ask for a 20k raise if their eyebrows shoot up like Mr. Spock then you know how much you are worth. I sure hope you have another job lined up because that's the queue to them you are looking.
This has been my experience and I have done exactly what I have stated above.
I now do security and compliance. No more wake up calls, no more you can't go on vacation because Oct. through January is the time of the year where we make our money.
Oh and that 100K salary mark gets very hard to justify every year especially when the CFO looks at the books and has a list of who is making over 100K per year. Unless of course you live in California and NewYork then that's welfare wages.
Hell most jails in the U.S dwarf this complex. Dear lord I hope an EMP never hits any of those towns. Sure hope the gov hasn't taken away the ability to protect yourself.
I told him that I didn't understand the question and so he said "How much do you need to live on?"
I asked him how much does it take for him to live on? He walked out and so did I.