Huh been awhile since I've updated as well. I'm in the same role, and got a small increase to my base salary in 2020 (raises were paused during COVID) but still got new RSU grants both in 2020 and 2021. Additionally, my company paid out a bonus this year which is new for non-commission employees.
Job Title: Operations Manager
Experience: 2 years in this role, 8 years total at same company
Age: 35
Salary: $74,500k base, 10% bonus for 2021. In 2020 I had $45k of RSUs that vested, and between RSU and ESPP shares I sold about $80k. I'm on track (based on current stock price) to receive about $60k of vested RSUs for 2021, so I'll probably sell at least as much as I did last year.
Education: Bachelor's
My boss just reached out for an impromptu chat over Zoom- now that COVID is (mostly) past us, HR is re-evaluating compensation across the board to make sure everyone's in the correct salary bands based on their role and tenure - we've had a few situations over the past few years where employees who had been in their role for a couple years were making less than newly hired coworkers. While everyone was understanding of the pay raise freeze for 2020 due to COVID, this only exacerbated the problem. Raises are back on the table now, so the intent was to correct everyone who is under-compensated "up" into their proper band, and then performance evaluations + raises would be coming later in Q3/Q4.
My base pay was determined to be 2% under what's expected for my set salary band - obviously not ideal but it certainly could have been worse! Then my boss tells me that, now that merit-based increases are also being allowed again, he wanted to use this opportunity to recognize the hard work I've done over the past year, and so he proposed to our VP a 10% raise. She did him one better, and decided to bump my base salary to
$94,000, a 26% increase! A raise at all was unexpected until later in the year, and I definitely wasn't expecting anything this high! I suspect that this is also (in part) a preemptive "thank you" for a massive rollout we have coming up in August/Sept that's going to be an absolute shit show for my department. It's definitely appreciated!
Job Title: Operations Manager
Experience: 2 years in this role, 8 years total at same company
Age: 35
Salary: $94k base, 10% bonus for 2021
Education: Bachelor's