7 Resources to Know Your Worth and Calculate Your Salary
Whether you are negotiating your salary within in your current position or during the job search; it’s essential to determine your worth. Being prepared for the conversation will be beneficial for you and your employer. The first step to calculating your salary is to determine what your experience, knowledge and skill set is worth in the current job market. As much as we want to graduate college and enter the working world making $80,000- it is probably not realistic. The same goes for being in our position for 3 months and then asking for a huge raise. Understanding how your experience and education match up will enhance the negotiation process and get you paid what you’re worth.
These 7 tools are a great place to identify your worth and calculate your salary :
Networking
Ask industry mentors for their opinion on what someone with your experience in a specific industry could be making. This does not have to be a specific number but more of a range as companies may vary in their compensation packages. But asking people you know and trust and who know and your worth is a great place to start the process.
Know Your Worth (Glassdoor.com)
Glassdoor is one of the biggest free sites to find salary information and it is…
