How to find salary examples
Good evening, Wondering if anyone here might know how to find out what a concrete dispatcher with 20 years experience should be making. Here's the senerio, This person has never gotten a promotion within the company and has been turned down due to one owners disent for jobs that had come up-it was due to not wanting to retrain a new dispatcher. The last wage increases were .30 a hour for the last 5 years.(teamsters got 1.50 per hour-per year for 5 years that this person oversaw). This person manages 20 drivers. The benefits for this job include health, fuel 1 time per week, profit sharing and a $500 dollar bonus per year. The salary is at $45000 after 20 years. There has never been a performance review, but are quite a few letters from contractors on file for great service and attention to details. Wondering if anyone has suggestions about negotiating a better salary. The cost of living here in NY is much higher than what the salary covers. The median income for 1 person here is at $ 63,000 per year to afford just a 1 bedroom apartment. Homes are running well over $375000. How would you find out what a concrete dispatcher with 20 years experience is making to negotiate to a better salary? Thanks, MrsBusDriver I hate to say it but make sure your friend has a resume in order and those letters from contractors in his portfolio before he starts talking more money with his current boss for it can easily backfire. Also make sure he looks at how vested he is in the profit sharing ... add up what all of his benefit are worth before pulling the trigger here he may very well be making over 63K a year depending on what his profit sharing looks like. The once a week fuel is worth say $50 a week making his salary go up by $2600 a year. Really just look at his full picture first before looking on the oher side of the fence.
Check Salary.com and the Occupational Outlook Handbook (www.bls.gov/oco/) . Those should give you a good idea of what dispatchers are making in New York. If you've got 20 years in the field and no raise in 5 years it is time to look elsewhere. Start a job search (quietly) and see if you can do better. You're not going to make the owners suddenly sit up and drop more money on your head. If you post your resume over on the resume board (minus name, address and phone) you can get some good free advice on it and start the job hunting process.
Tess
vault.com is a great place. You need a subscription, but people from varies companies post there salaries an benefits for postions
I would also check the salary charts on American's Job Bank--they're more realistic that salary.com However, without having any clue what the salary "should" be for what your DH does, given the level of responsibility he has, and the high COL in NY (I assume you mean metro NYC?), I can tell you he is underpaid by any measure. He should start looking for another job today, if not sooner. Regardless of where the salary information about what jobs like this one "should" pay comes from, I don't think it's going to have much impact on whoever decides salary questions within this company. The way to negotiate more money is for this person to be able to show in real terms what he or she has accomplished over the last several years, including the letters or appreciation, and anything else that highlights the extra attention to detail that's been provided. In other words, this person should make the case for a higher salary based on his or her own performance on the job, not on what some outside survey says jobs like this one "should" pay. If I'm the employer, I could care less what some survey says, but I might care a lot if I could see in real ways how the performance of this person on the job was helping me turn a profit. If all that fails, I'd recommend that this person quietly start looking for another job - keeping in mind that it's always easier to find a job when you have one. Hope this helps. Paul W. Barada The Negotiation Expert | |
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