A Strategy for Corporate Employees to Justify a Higher Salary Raise
🚫 What you think managing up means:
- Making a list of your contributions each week
- Sharing your achievements with your boss
- Meeting with your skip level once a quarter
- Talking about career growth
✅ What managing up actually means:
- Framing your ideas to get buy-in
- Giving the right amount of context
- Proactively keeping folks informed
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You can’t tell them you need more money because your expenses are higher. Nobody cares. You can, however, show how your work has been contributing to the company’s success and ask to be compensated fairly.
Ramit Sethi • I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works
Don’t pay people for the number of people they lead or the lines of code they write. Pay them for the results they generate.
The above philosophy is powerful and liberating. It doesn’t matter if you are an individual contributor (IC), a technical lead, or a team lead. What matters is how much your contributions affect the bottom line of the busines... See more
The above philosophy is powerful and liberating. It doesn’t matter if you are an individual contributor (IC), a technical lead, or a team lead. What matters is how much your contributions affect the bottom line of the busines... See more