Reasons to Brush Up On Your Salary Negotiations Now

By Trevor Davide Grant

Are you underpaid, and over worked? Do you put in excessive an effort in your career life and give up too much of your free time? Are you a consummate professional and in need of a pay raise? If so, you're one the millions who are in the same boat.

If you want to move ahead in the rat race, and stand out above the millions of others, you need to learn to negotiate a salary raise from a place of empowerment. In order to get to that place, you need to plan ahead and intimately know how you will approach your boss for a pay raise. What will you say? What is your case for salary negotiation?

While everyone has a reason to ask for a raise, most people need to work on their salary negotiation skills. What are your reasons to improve your game and ask for a raise?

1. Earning the respect of your boss. One facet of job satisfaction that shows up repeatedly on employee satisfaction surveys is that people who feel respected by their employers are more likely to stay with them. Well one factor that is respected. Well, when you approach salary negotiation from a place of empowerment and win, you will have earned the respect of your employer.

2. Self respect. When you stand up for yourself, and negotiate a salary increase successfully, you will feel a sense of pride for your accomplishment. It is not self indulgent, it is rather well founded pride in both working hard and deserving the raise, and in preparing yourself with a solid case for salary negotiation.

3. Increased spending money. Honestly, if you're going to negotiate salary, you are going to do it for the extra cash flow you will have. Whether your reason for wanting to earn more money is based on your wish list, or because you need more money for the day to day cost of living, having more income is your main motivation of salary negotiation. If you're going to succeed in negotiation, you need to have the best salary negotiating skills.

4. Improved benefits. You may not only negotiate more salary, you may also be able to negotiate or compromise for additional benefits. Think of what you can do with extra vacation, paid overtime, stock options, or paid parking. These benefits may be a small concession to the employer and mean a lot to you. In order to be effective, you need to excel in your salary negotiation skills.

5. Raising the bar on your future salary negotiations. When you increase your salary, you will establish a new baseline for your career earnings. When you continue to perform like a superstar, you will enable yourself to negotiate future salary increases as well. By negotiating a higher salary now, you will have increased your future earning potential.

You know your motivations for increasing your skills in salary negotiation. Having a well founded set of skills, strategies and tactics, you will greatly increase your chances of success in your career.

Wishing you the best for an excellent salary negotiation. - 18099

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