Tried to quit part time job and got an 80% raise!

[wellnessmobile]

The mustachian power is real! When you are in the position of power anything is possible. I was tired of driving to my part time job (~2 hr round trip) to only work 5 hours per week. The value just wasn't adding up for my life energy. I told the director that I would be quitting at the end of June. He did not like to hear that since I have developed a quality relationship with the site and have significantly improved their numbers. So he asked me what it would take to get me to stay. I told him I am willing to listen but it has to make me want to get out of bed.

He definitely surprised me! He offered me an 80% increase in pay with the same hours. I went from $50 an hour to $90 an hour by making myself valuable and making it clear that I will walk without attractive terms.

On the flip side, it is quite alarming that companies have so much wiggle room with pay negotiations. Or for that matter, the fact that a company will always try to maximize their profits by recognizing that most people HAVE to work so they will not push back on their pay rate.

Needlessly to say, I am not quitting anymore! FI has just been accelerated.

As David Goggins would say --> stay hard.

[JLee]

Congratulations!

[draco44]

Holy crap! Well played! Though I agree that there's an edge of "wait, you could have been paying me X this whole time?" Your bargaining power's never higher than when you are actually willing to walk away.

[lazycow]

That's wonderful!

[cool7hand]

Impressive. Most impressive!

[yachi]

FI has just been accelerated.

Congrats! That's an awesome increase.  As much confidence as you had approaching the job, I assumed you were FI already.  Is this a second job?  If so, it one you want to keep once you are FI?  There are a lot of good incentives for keeping some earned income.

[wellnessmobile]

Holy crap! Well played! Though I agree that there's an edge of "wait, you could have been paying me X this whole time?" Your bargaining power's never higher than when you are actually willing to walk away.

Thanks and very true!

[wellnessmobile]

FI has just been accelerated.

Congrats! That's an awesome increase.  As much confidence as you had approaching the job, I assumed you were FI already.  Is this a second job?  If so, it one you want to keep once you are FI?  There are a lot of good incentives for keeping some earned income.

Yep, this is a second(or third job). My primary job is more than enough for me so I simply played my cards and let them decide if they wanted to keep me. At this rate, I should reach FI in about 3 years at age 34. The more I focus on FI the faster it seems to become a reality. I doubt I would keep this job after FI because I will not be living in the same area or desire to drive 2 hours round trip for work.

[Zamboni]

That's pretty entertaining. Your commute is murder, though. Are you sure you want to keep it even at the higher rate?

[TomTX]

That's pretty entertaining. Your commute is murder, though. Are you sure you want to keep it even at the higher rate?

Eh, if you count the commute time as "work" - If I'm reading the details correctly it's still $64/hr (5 hour workday, 2 hour commute).

[clarkfan1979]

I don't have any direct experience with this, but based on the experiences of my friends, if you are working on a part-time basis and/or consultant there seems to be more flexibility with negotiations, especially if they are not providing health insurance benefits. When you are full-time salary, organizations seem to be pretty firm on the structure of salaries based on organizational hierarchy.

[JAYSLOL]

I don't have any direct experience with this, but based on the experiences of my friends, if you are working on a part-time basis and/or consultant there seems to be more flexibility with negotiations, especially if they are not providing health insurance benefits. When you are full-time salary, organizations seem to be pretty firm on the structure of salaries based on organizational hierarchy.

Yep, this.  Way easier for a company to justify a one-off increase for someone in a non-permanent position because the regular employees can’t really compare themselves in the same way