Don was a bench technician with stuffy electronics, Inc.. He enjoyed his work and his meager salary but Don had a dream. He wanted to become a fully-qualified professional electrical engineer.
He diligently attended night and weekend classes at a prestigious engineering college and after seven long years he graduated with honors with the BSEE degree which in the engineering field is THE ticket into this professional and well-paid field.
But when Don
marched into his boss’s office and waved his new degree around, he got
lots of congratulations, lots of high-fives but little else.
He knew all
too well that other young freshly graduated engineers from the very same
college were being routinely hired at around $65,000 per year.
But Don was offered an insulting raise to only $29,000. This made no
sense at all to him, as he was now a fully qualified and degreed engineer. Not
only that, the firm knew that Don was a reliable, honest, sober, hard-working
and productive employee. He had paid his educational dues just like the
others but for some strange reason the firm was hesitant to double his
salary overnight - no matter how impressive his new qualifications.
Though Don had no previous interest in leaving stuffy electronics, his hand was forced. He was forced to take an engineering position with a major competitor at a engineer's salary of $59,000. Then a year and a half later, like a bad penny he returned to stuffy; his starting return salary – a very respectable $66,000!
Firms just hate to boost an employee’s salary more than %15 or so no matter how impressive their new qualifications. To move up and get the bucks you deserve, you may need to either leave and stay gone or do as Don did; leave and boomerang back later with more real-world experience and a new more established salary history. Then and only then will you be fully respected and paid what you're truly worth.
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