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Brie Hoffler
This is pretty much how I feel every time I talk to my engineering friends about salary negotiation. We overwhelmingly suck at it. We have turned sucking at it into a perverse badge of virtue. We make no affirmative efforts to un-suck ourselves and, to the extent we read about it at all, we read bad advice and repeat it, pretending that this makes us wise.
Virtually any amount of money available to you personally is mouse droppings to your prospective employer. They will not feel offended if you ask for it. (I received a comment that this is untrue for startups by someone today. For a funded startup which has enough engineers to warrant a foosball table, the company payroll is well north of $100,000 a month. Making a new hire is a big commitment, but they still have a lot of flexibility on the details because the details do not shave months off of their runway.)
This is an effective strategy for job searching if you enjoy alternating bouts of being unemployed, being poorly compensated, and then treated like a disposable peon. (I served three years as a disposable peon in a Japanese megacorp and might be projecting a tad bit here. Regardless, my loss is your gain.)
You might think that desirable jobs at well-managed companies (Google, Microsoft, hot startup FooWithTheWhat.ly, etc) have layers and layers of bureaucratic scar tissue (a great image from 37Signals) to ensure that their hiring will conform to established processes and that offers will not be given to candidates sourced by using informal networks and interpersonal connections. If you believe this, you have a dangerously incomplete mental model of how the world operates. I have a specific recommendation for you to make that model more complete: start talking to people who actually work for those companies and who have hiring authority. Virtually no company has a hiring process which is accurately explained by blog posts about the company. No company anywhere has a hiring process which is accurately explained by their own documents about how the hiring process works.
You then have a high likelihood of doing your salary negotiation over email, which is likely to your advantage versus doing it in real time. Email gives you arbitrary time to prepare your responses. Especially for engineers, you are likely less disadvantaged by email than you are by having an experienced negotiator talking to you.
Every handbook on negotiation and every blog post will tell you not to give a number first. This advice is almost always right. It is so right, you have to construct crazy hypotheticals to find edge cases where it would not be right.
You should steal this tactic. You are an expert in your own skill set, life story, and (ideally) value you can create for the company. However, the person you are talking to is not. If they ever resist about something which you want, consider reaching into the treasure chest that they are buying mostly blind and revealing one of the many glittering jewels inside. They are going to get them all anyhow if they buy the chest, but each one you bring out decreases the perceived risk of buying it and therefor increases its perceived value.
Applicant: Well, I know you do a significant amount of business with your online store. At my last company, I increased sales by 3% by $YADDA_YADDA. What would a 1% increase in sales be worth to you?
I am interested in what specialties are making 100k. I have 3 daughters in nursing school and can advise them on a lot, but not necessarily give them a big pic of the financial opportunities from across the nation. I am a 25 year RN and have a 65k salary, but double it most years with ot. not much fun working 68-72 hour weeks though. please tell me your specialty, experience , salary, and salary with diff and ot. oh, and where you r in the USA thank you all and hope your practice is professionally and financially rewarding
Working in CA (as I have done, but don't live there now) makes it pretty easy to make 100K+ but it comes at a cost. I live in NM and the cost of living here is very reasonable and nursing wages are decent. You can push 90k here without having to work like crazy. In general though nursing is not a 100k/yr job. And since we are shift workers you generally have to work all the time to earn big bucks (as opposed to salaried professionals that get to 'move up' in the world when they work hard). But to answer your question, the OR is probably the BEST place for a nurse to make bank. Because the OR is so bad about training new nurses they are severely short all across the country. And as an OR nurse you often have to do OT or call if you're working in a hospital setting. If you have 3 daughters in nursing school advise them to graduate and become NPs or Pharmacists and they will have a better work environment and be able to easily make $100k per year. But if they insist they want to make money in nursing, then OR, L/D, Cath Lab, ICU, etc will always be the high demand areas and get the best pay.
I'm guessing you could make that much by being a weekend option night shift RN and picking up some extra shifts. Unless you live in a high cost living area, I don't know very many RN nurses that make that much.
The per hour amount or annual salary is subjective. The cost of living is a factor. You may make $100k/ yr, but the high cost of living will eat away at your take home pay. Finding an area with high salary and low cost of living would be the ideal location (financially at least).
In my area, psych RNs are paid more (due to high demand and low supply) and CRNAs are paid more. Other than that, it comes down to years of experience, union hospitals, certifications, shift differentials, managerial position, etc. Specialty really doesn't matter.
I am a WEO nurse and even with an extra shift per week, I am no where near 100K more like 70. This is NC though Agree with PP about where you are and cost of living. I am in school for informatics and I am told it has the potential for 6 figures. Time will tell.
I have made 96-100k the last two years as a NICU RN by working a huge amount of OT and bonus shifts. Also picked up extra skills that pay more. Got a 5% bump for ECMO and a 5% diff when doing transport. Low cost of living area.
Why do you think your daughters would come out of nursing school and be able to make a 100K a year when you as an experienced nurse only clear that amount with copious overtime? The only RNs I've heard of making 100K+ a year with out also living in a high cost of living area (like San Francisco) all had experience and overtime hours on their side. In my area an experienced acute care night-shifter taking home differentials for nights + weekends, and picking up some overtime could clear 100K/year, but I don't think it is possible for a new grad even full-time nights/weekends unless they are working at the highest paying facility in the area and taking on an unhealthy amount of overtime.
By and large variations in staff nurse pay are determined by geographic location, experience, and shift, not specialty (although of course working in a higher-demand specialty makes it easier to go where the money is).
If they want bigger salaries, going back to school for advanced practice or becoming travelers is probably the way to go. Big money in clinical staff nurse positions tends to come, as I'm sure you've experienced, only with a correspondingly huge number of hours.
I work in acute psych and depending on how much overtime I choose to do I make around $80,000.00 a year. I could make more if I finished my BSN but I'm 54 and mine is the second income for our family. My husband's job pays the bills and mine pays for all the other stuff that comes up. It took some time to pay off all my debts related to my Diversion Monitoring program so this is the first year we are thinking about a real vacation. Has anybody here been to Spain?
It's all about location, location, location. I am an experienced RN and that's about what I make. It's considered a darn good wage around here. I also make that working a 36 hour week instead of the traditional 40 and working 12 hour shifts which means I only work 3 days a week. If I picked up OT with bonuses I probably could break 100k a year, if I was willing to do nothing but work which I'm not.
I make six figures without any OT or supplemental income/jobs. To maximize pay I would suggest working nights and joining the float pool. I have 12 years experience and get differentials for BSN, certification, nights, and floating. Granted, I also work in a high COL city.
I'm a progressive care travel nurse. I can tell you it's relatively easy to make 100k per year without significant overtime. And, you don't have to work in California which usually has the highest paying contracts. No matter what specialty you're in.
I've been in Acute care for about 2.5 years. I don't work ICU or any fancy specialty. I work nights. I work 36 hours/week. I rarely work overtime. I do get floated ALOT. Med-surg, ortho, medical, cardiac, etc. My first year as a travel nurse was about 80k with little overtime.
This is a bit of a "holy war" among software developers; one that's been the subject of many debates and in-jokes. I use spaces, but I never thought it was particularly important. But today we're releasing the raw data behind the Stack Overflow 2017 Developer Survey, and some analysis suggests this choice matters more than I expected.
Analyzing the data leads us to an interesting conclusion. Coders who use spaces for indentation make more money than ones who use tabs, even if they have the same amount of experience:
Indeed, the median developer who uses spaces had a salary of $59,140, while the median tabs developer had a salary of $43,750. (Note that all the results were converted into US dollars from each respondent's currency). Developers who responded "Both" were generally indistinguishable from ones who answered "Tabs": I'll leave them out of many of the remaining analyses.
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