re: Sign on bonuses with no matching raise the next year

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I recieved a sign on bonus of aproximately 7% of my yearly salary when I joined my current company and I'm about to be getting paid less in my second year on the job than the 1st year on the job because they "can't give anyone more than a 3% raise" which I know is a bunch of bs. I really hope they realize the vast majority of employees are going to leave for better pay if they're not promoted, because no one is going to do the same or in my case more work for less pay. There is something intrinsically wrong about being paid less than what you made the previous year, unless of course we're talking about top dollar contracts. This is a job straight out of college.

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Maybe you deserve more than a 3% raise and maybe your company is paying under market. Entirely possible. Have you done any research to see where your comp is compared to market?

But there are a few things you need to understand.

1) Your sign-on bonus, especially as a recent grad, does basically three things: it ensures you show up (especially if you agreed to the job before graduation), it gives you some cash to buy some new clothes / work clothes / helps you relocate if needed, and it helps transistion you into the work world.

2) What size of a company do you work for? Larger companies often have this stupid thing called "HR" and one of the things they do is try to shove everyone's pay into "narrow bands". This is so no one sues the company alleging pay discrimination. If your boss is telling you after 1 year he can only give a 3 percent raise, it may well be that HR and his bosses have said the highest raise a first year can get is 3%.

3) You really, really need to understand the differences between bonus pay and base pay. Lots and lots and lots of professionals have total pay go up and down. If your base pay ever goes down, yeah that's a big problem. But bonuses can and do move around, sometimes nice and fat, sometimes no bonus at all. Sometimes completely in your control, sometimes not at all in your control.

You are a data engineer. I'm guessing (yes I'm stereotyping) that your social skills are poor. You come on here to complain, and when people try to help you understand, you jump all over them and basically say they don't know what they are talking about.

This isn't the O-T, man. People are honestly trying to help you understand what's going on, because we've all been a first year employee and didn't know anything about corporate life.

If after all of this, you still feel your current employer has "slighted" you, then since you say you are in an in-demand field, I would get in touch with a headhunter and see what they can do for you.

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Suck my fricking dick 7% is nothing. That's over 40%. I'm so done with you fricking accountant arse motherfrickers. I'm sorry y'all don't provide actual value to your corpprations unless your cooking the books so anyone bitching about their pay in ungrateful but suck my fricking dick. I hope your fricking job gets automated.I can show in real dollars what my value to yhe company is and you can suck my fricking dick for wanting yo be acknowledged and fairly compensated for it. Go frick yourselves I am done with this thread. Anchor this bitch or continue to have a circle jerk calling me an entitled cuck I don't give a shite. I'm out

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Maybe we can move this to the O-T, where this type of melting belongs?

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HogFanfromHTown

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