re: What would you expect from your employer in this situation?

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I'm in IT, my company was purchased by a much larger company. Long story short, we are much more advanced on the tech side than they are. They contract out basically everything and end up with shite.

We are currently paying contractors around 500k a month, some portion of that is to manually do some documentation. I took a couple of weeks and automated the entire process essentially eliminating the need for the contractors and some portion of that 500k a month.

Should I expect some sort of bonus, raise, promotion, or just atta boy?

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You should have nailed that down beforehand if it was not part of your core duty, if it was you should expect a paycheck.