My 5 Tried and Tested ways to Grow your Salary as a Programmer or IT Professional
Here are 5 practical, tried and tested tips to grow your salary as programmer
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1. Join a Startup
Small company tends to reward their employees more than big companies so I suggest you to join a startup at start of your career. In my early ages I worked for a gaming company where we used to get salary hike every 6 month. Now, not that many company exists but startups are still a place where you can grow your salary quickly.
2. Change job every 1.5 or 2 years
When you are early in your career you can change job much easily as your salary is not very high and there are a lot of opportunity. You should make full use of that and change your job every 2 years and jump for double or triple, don’t jump for just 20% hike. Preparing for interviews also make you a better developer and give you confidence. Otherwise you will become complacent and not grow much.
3. Follow your Tech Lead/Boss
If you are good at networking you can also grow with your boss, I know many friends who has really great terms with their boss and when he leaves, more often then not the people working with him also goes after few months with much better salary and perks.
4. Do Market research and Ask for Hike
You should never afraid of asking higher salary. I have found that people who ask for higher salary always get better salary then people who don’t. Both your recruiter and HR always have head rooms, sometime even 50% so you must do Market research and ask 20% more than top band. In worst case you won’t get but more often then not you will and when you sell yourself high, people also consider that you are worth more.
5. Do well on Interviews
The better you do on interviews the more chances you will have to get better salary, so take your interviews seriously and impress your interviewer that you are a rockstar developer. He will then help you to get what you want.
So, these were my 5 tips to get higher salary and grow fast in your career. What are you tips? Does these tip make sense? Have you used any of these? or may what is your favorite one?
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