How much should my friend ask for in the first raise as a salaried employee?

Question

My friend works as a design engineer. How much should he ask for in his first raise?

Answer 1

Tell him/her to go to salary.com to get what design engineers in his/her industry/region get paid. If he is in fact, underpaid, he/she should go to his/her boss and back up why he/should should get a raise. By backing it up I mean bringing with him/her data. Data such as what projects she/he completed, how he/she met or exceeded the customers deadlines etc. If he's working in the Detroit area in automotive, for a Tier 1 or 2 supplier, DE's salary's start at $55K for a college grad/entry level and can make up to 100k. If he/she works for one of the Big 3 or OEM, the minimum of the payband is higher. When he/she gets the salary structure from salary.com, depending how much experience he has, he can divide his/her salary by what salary.com has and whatever percentage that comes out to is what he/she should ask for.

Answer 2

When asking for a raise, you have to explain to your employer how increasing your salary will increase your value to the company.

Gather details of the work you've done to date and show how this has made the company more profitable either through increasing income or reducing expenses.

Many companies restrict the total money amount of raises that managers can offer. Some employees will get little or none whilst others may get substantial raises as long as the expenditures for the entire team are within guidelines. It helps to know how your company handles raises. Discuss this with your manager as you come up to your annual review.

Answer 3

Well depending on what her status is she should consider asking for something that is reasonable not off the track....