Acceptable to ask salary range?
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TechGromit
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Sometimes taking a bigger pay increase doesn't always mean much if the benefits are expensive. I didn't take a huge pay increase with my current job, but I'm also only paying around $100 a month for ALL of my wife and I's benefits plus a nice 401k match which is 100% vested immediately, compared to my last job where health insurance alone was $600 a month and everything else sucked too...it's about the total compensation package, not just salary. Skip the range and stick with a specific number...
Wow, I thought I was getting good benefits. I'm paying around $250 for me and my wife, for very good medical insurance, Vision, Dental, term life for me and my wife and supplemental short term disability. I could pick a cheaper medial plan and cut my rate in half, but just don't get sick, it don't cover much. I know a co-worker who picked the cheapest medial insurance plan, her husband got sick and she was on the hook for 10 grand in uncovered medial bills.Still searching for the corner in a round room. -
ITSec14
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TechGromit wrote: »Wow, I thought I was getting good benefits. I'm paying around $250 for me and my wife, for very good medical insurance, Vision, Dental, term life for me and my wife and supplemental short term disability. I could pick a cheaper medial plan and cut my rate in half, but just don't get sick, it don't cover much. I know a co-worker who picked the cheapest medial insurance plan, her husband got sick and she was on the hook for 10 grand in uncovered medial bills.
$250 is still great considering you have really good coverage! Benefits are incredibly important and I think a lot of younger people tend to overlook that. A good salary is important, but if you have bad medical benefits and a major health issue arises you're screwed! Especially with all of these crazy high deductibles. -
Chevel
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After burning enough vacation days for 'final interviews' to find out they want to low ball someone, it starts to get easy to say within the first 3 sentences "Hi, nice to meet you, the least I will work for is $xxx,xxx.xx.
Yeah, had that happen too.....never again.