Help with pay

I work for a warehousing company. I was hired as a Customer Service
Rep. My boss wanted me to redo some old Excel worksheets so I
suggested converting them into Access databases.

I have now created 8 seperate databases and numerous Excel
spreadsheets and I don't feel like I am being compensated fairly. I
currently make 28K.

I have a bachelors degree in computer information systems, live in
North Carolina and have a couple years experience in developing A

My question is: based on the above information am I being underpaid or
should I not even worry about it??

Re: Help with pay

lucky33 wrote:
> I work for a warehousing company. I was hired as a Customer Service
> Rep. My boss wanted me to redo some old Excel worksheets so I
> suggested converting them into Access databases.
>
> I have now created 8 seperate databases and numerous Excel
> spreadsheets and I don't feel like I am being compensated fairly. I
> currently make 28K.
>
> I have a bachelors degree in computer information systems, live in
> North Carolina and have a couple years experience in developing A
>
> My question is: based on the above information am I being underpaid or
> should I not even worry about it??

Do you live in Booger Swamp, NC (I used to pass a sign for it on 40 west
of Winston/Salem) or do you live in Raleigh/Durham? The pay one may get
in a hillbilly area may be different than a metropolitan area.

Also, bosses don't live in fine houses and drive nice cars by paying
their employees princely sums. Why do you think outsourcing is so
popular? If an employee will work cheaply then they make more money.

You don't mention what your job is now. Are you still a customer
service employee or are you primarily a programmer? Or are you a
combination of both?

You might want to look at http://www.dice.com/ and see if you can find
some jobs with rates that would be similar to yours in the nearby area.
Maybe contact a head hunter as well to get some ballpark figures.

The real question is...are you happy with your pay?

Re: Help with pay

You make WAYYY to much money.

lucky33 wrote:
>I work for a warehousing company. I was hired as a Customer Service
>Rep. My boss wanted me to redo some old Excel worksheets so I
>suggested converting them into Access databases.
>
>I have now created 8 seperate databases and numerous Excel
>spreadsheets and I don't feel like I am being compensated fairly. I
>currently make 28K.
>
>I have a bachelors degree in computer information systems, live in
>North Carolina and have a couple years experience in developing A
>
>My question is: based on the above information am I being underpaid or
>should I not even worry about it??

Re: Help with pay

On Jan 15, 3:05=A0pm, "koepkedw" wrote:
> You make WAYYY to much money.
>

TOO

Re: Help with pay

They let bosses post here?

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Re: Help with pay

On Jan 15, 1:25 pm, lucky33 wrote:

> I have now created 8 seperate databases and numerous Excel
> spreadsheets and I don't feel like I am being compensated fairly. I
> currently make 28K.

Thinking about value, the above information is not enough. Post five
examples of your most creative code. Upon seeing those we might guess
they are indicative of the general level of your work and say, "$280
000!" Of course, if the code is like most posted here we might say,
"$2 800."

> I have a bachelors degree in computer information systems, live in
> North Carolina and have a couple years experience in developing A

In the early eighties my brother and I agreed that the "Bachelor"
graduates of that time were almost as well educated as we were when we
left high school in the early fifties. Today we're of the same mind,
but have substituted "Master" for "Bachelor".

> My question is: based on the above information am I being underpaid or
> should I not even worry about it??

Thinking about fairness and honour, in my opinion, anyone earning $ 28
000 annually is being underpaid.

Re: Help with pay

Assuming you live in a country where salaries are much lower, consider that,
while U.S. salaries are higher, the cost of living is also much higher. This
person's salary is not very high compared to what it costs to live in the
U.S.


"koepkedw" wrote in message news:7e42c24eb5679@uwe...
> You make WAYYY to much money.
>
> lucky33 wrote:
>>I work for a warehousing company. I was hired as a Customer Service
>>Rep. My boss wanted me to redo some old Excel worksheets so I
>>suggested converting them into Access databases.
>>
>>I have now created 8 seperate databases and numerous Excel
>>spreadsheets and I don't feel like I am being compensated fairly. I
>>currently make 28K.
>>
>>I have a bachelors degree in computer information systems, live in
>>North Carolina and have a couple years experience in developing A
>>
>>My question is: based on the above information am I being underpaid or
>>should I not even worry about it??
>

Re: Help with pay

The issue to me is: how long are you going to be making Access databases? A
year? Two years? If this is a project that will last, say, several months,
then it's not appropriate to ask for a salary increase for a temporary
situation. Consider it something that makes you more valuable to the
employer (and gives you job security, as these databases will have to be
maintained somewhat).

However, if this is going to be a part of your job on an ongoing basis,
then, sure, it would seem legitimate to ask for more. The question then
would be (as Lyle noted): how much technical expertise is involved? Or you
assembling databases using tables, queries, and macros; or are you writing
pages and pages of original code?

Last, but not least, consider that, even if it turns out that you truly
deserve more money, it doesn't mean that your company has the funds or the
desire to pay you that. That is, you suggested doing it in Access, and they
said fine. So they might see it as an extra thing that you volunteered to
do, but not something they were looking to create a position over.

In the end, I think it's appropriate to bring up the subject and see how far
they're willing to go with it. But, again, since it was your idea to do them
in Access in the first place, I wouldn't expect any miracles in that regard.

Good luck!


"lucky33" wrote in message
news:55d8ce08-2168-4145-9f3c-d218f70fc3ce@j78g2000hsd.google groups.com...
>I work for a warehousing company. I was hired as a Customer Service
> Rep. My boss wanted me to redo some old Excel worksheets so I
> suggested converting them into Access databases.
>
> I have now created 8 seperate databases and numerous Excel
> spreadsheets and I don't feel like I am being compensated fairly. I
> currently make 28K.
>
> I have a bachelors degree in computer information systems, live in
> North Carolina and have a couple years experience in developing A
>
> My question is: based on the above information am I being underpaid or
> should I not even worry about it??