Ok, all!
Backstory: Just finished graduate school about a year and a half ago, have been working as a scientist at a contract research/manufacturing company for just over a year. Just got called into my super-senior-management's office today and was told: "Congratulations! We're giving you a raise and a promotion!" Which, mind you, is lovely, 'specially a year out of school. They'd kinda been hinting as much, but I didn't figure it would happen quite so soon.
Only problem is now I'm trying to figure out (after the fact...) how much of a raise should go along with a promotion? Should I have tried to counter for more (answer: probably), and how does one go about doing that politely? If it had been my manager, whom I feel more comfortable with, I might have given it a shot but with the bigwigs I felt rather nervous.
I got a 6.3% 'blended' raise, apparently meaning it combines what my yearly COL/'merit' raise would have been with my promotion raise, and an extra percent of potential bonus. I kinda thought it would have been a bit higher, but again.... I don't really have the experience to know.
Anyone have any input on how to counter for more raises and what sorts of increases promotions generally run? Better late than never, right?!? Ammo for the future and all that...
Thanks!
Tracy