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Company doesn't allow taking pay cuts to move to other projects even though I'll be unemployed within a month. What to do?
I'm an employee at a fortune 500 IT consulting company, and my current project is coming to an end. Naturally, I'm applying to other projects within the company before the current project ends and I'm ...
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Can one be demoted and have one's pay cut for not taking a promotion?
I have a position that I am happy with and I excel at. All my evaluations are excellent. I have been with the company for 13 years.
Recently they have asked me to take a promotion to management.
I ...
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Can my employer change my 1099 contracted pay rate without my acceptance or a new contract?
I was hired in November as a cleaner by a cleaning company out of Atlanta, GA. I signed an agreement to perform all duties of the job 7 nights/week for $2200/month. The first month, my gross pay was ...
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Is it common for a contracting agency to share my pay rate with the client?
So I'm in a contract to perm job. I was hired by an agency and get an hourly rate to work for a company. I'm expecting to be offered a permanent position with the company in October. I'm wondering how ...
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Employee name removed from the organization chart [closed]
I recently noticed something weird. I have been working in a company as an R&D researcher since 2019. I have been part-time during my studies as a master's student and then got hired as a full-...
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Unexpected Promotion & Little Experience. How to Judge an Appropriate Salary for a my New Position?
I have recently been told that I will soon be receiving a promotion to a new position, Product Owner, at my annual performance review. This was fantastic news to me, but I realized upon thinking it ...
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Offered job at lower title than applied for: does this impact my negotiation power?
I applied for a position of Staff Software Engineer at a top gaming studio and got the great news yesterday that they'd like to extend me an offer, though at a lower level of Senior Software Engineer ...
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Am I right in thinking that my spouse's salary is irrelevant to my own raise?
I work in IT in Nevada, USA. My wife was hired by my employer's accounting department a few months ago. My employer typically announces next year's raises just before Christmas. Despite record profits ...
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Negotiate for better pay amidst organization reshuffle
I've been working for the current IT company for almost 6 years now. I've stuck with this employer this long for personal reasons.
I've had 5 different managers here. Just right during performance ...
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What are the questions to ask a pre-seed start-up in order to understand the value of the offered equity?
A start-up with pre-seed closing round average of 5 days is to soon begin its fourth and final pre-seed round @ $15M evaluation, up from a current $12M. Planned for Q2 of next year is a first Seed ...
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Normal to get paid based on only years worked rather than output?
I'm a software developer based in the U.S. I've been with a company for a few years.
I have 8 years of work experience, but I'm doing the work that someone with 15-20 years would typically do. My ...
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How to negotiate at your current company? [duplicate]
My questions are:
What do managers and companies care about in deciding whether or not to award a raise?
What does a successful internal negotiation for a raise look like within (most companies) from ...
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Will a company change a posted job description to reflect a candidate's salary request?
A month into a six month contract-to-hire role, it was communicated to me by my contracting agency and the company I work with that, should I accept, a process would begin to buy-out my contract and ...
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Still getting paid after leaving the company? Do I have to give the money back? [closed]
My girlfriend left a job on good terms to work for a different company. Apparently the payroll manager (one person department, it’s a company of <100 employees) forgot to take her off the payroll ...
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How does overtime work for hourly contractors? [closed]
As an hourly contractor how does overtime typically work? I have been keeping under the 8hrs/day, but due to university commitments will be shifting a significant portion of my hours onto the weekends ...
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