Software Developers: how to get a raise without changing jobs

Re:Software Developers: how to get a raise without changing ... by geofft on Monday November 07, 2016 @04:52PM (#12895530)

If the option of giving people nontrivial raises is unblocked, you only need to play it once. It is harder to play it this way, of course, but once you have an exception / your boss has more budget / etc., you can hopefully just do normal raise negotiation.

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Re:Software Developers: how to get a raise without changing ... by ryandrake on Monday November 07, 2016 @05:41PM (#12895910)

If "threatening to quit" is the process to get a raise at your company, what makes you think that doing so will suddenly stop that process?

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Re:Software Developers: how to get a raise without changing ... by geofft on Monday November 07, 2016 @05:49PM (#12895969)

I'm referring specifically to 'redwards510's department, which has a specific budget for raises (and to similar cases). I'm not referring to companies where in general one needs to threaten to quit to get a raise, of which there are a lot more. My guess is that if 'redwards510 threatens to quit, and that goes successfully, that will necessarily involve either raising the annual budget for raises (which, if I'm understanding correctly, is in dollars-per-year, not dollars), or fixing the process.

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