At my last company, one day someone in accounting approached me at lunch and quietly told me I need to ask for a raise because I was way underpaid.
They gave me a number to shoot for. It was about twice than what I had been making at the time.
So I went online, did some research, found some figures backing up my claim, put it all together and went to my boss.
I got what I asked for.
If it hadn’t been for that person in accounting telling me I was way underpaid, I’d have never known. I went from barely scraping by to being able to have a savings account and getting all my debts paid thanks to them.
You should at least check sites like salary.com to start the process of seeing what you should be making.
Because this is crucially important
Except for the fact that 90% of the time you are under contract not to talk about your salary otherwise the company can sue you. Every job I’ve had I’ve had to sign that I won’t discuss my pay with other employees otherwise my employment is terminated and the company will take legal action.
If you scrolled right past this – GO THE FUCK BACK UP – this is a huge PSA
jfc I’ll be having some words with some folks
It is illegal to pay people differently for the same work at the same level just because of ethnicity or gender. It has been for like fifty years now. Which is why they put a line in your contract that you’re not allowed to talk about your salary, so nobody can put together a case to sue them for the huge wage discrimination going on. But guess what? That line in the contract is also super illegal, so talk freely, compare notes, and sue to fucking pants off your boss if they object.
Other then the wage gap bullshit, most of the information here is legit
When you see a really good post but there’s some form of guilt tripping to reblog it added on at the end
(ID: A screenshot of Marge from the Simpsons looking dismally at the camera with one arm raised. A caption underneath her reads “It’s true, but I’m not reblogging it.” End ID)
someone : Unfollow me if you don’t reblog this
The rebel in me: not rebloging and not unfollowing
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