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Just wanted to post this here cause I figured this is where I’d get the best feedback and advice from people in a similar position.
So here’s the backstory. Been with t a this firm since graduating in 2014. It’s a smaller local firm in the Phoenix area. We have 4 partners, 2-3 staff, and 2 bookkeepers plus and office admin. We do both audit and tax so 2 busy seasons. We do a lot of municipalities, so we travel around the state quite a bit.
That brings me to now. I passed the CPA this last year and got licensed i in June. So I was anticipating a bigger raise than I normally get. Not crazy, but just more than usual. Plus one of the other staff guys took another job just before our annual reviews and the start of our busy audit season. So I figured, since I’m already the most senior of the staff, that even more responsibilities would fall on me. Plus the only other staff is quite frankly, bad at his job. So I am always cleaning up is messes. Taking all of that into consideration, I figured this would be the year for a nice raise and showing they’re committed to keeping me here.
Here’s my salary breakdown:
Year 1: $51,000
Year 2: $55,000
Year 3: $61,000
Year 4: $66,000
Year 5: $72,000My expectation for year 6 is that they would bump me up to at least $80,000. I thought that was fair and not unreasonable. Plus with being a CPA now and taking on more work with one of our staff leaving and no one coming in to replace him anytime soon, there was money to allocate to me.
Instead they bumped me to $77,000 and then went on some spiel about how high their fixed costs were and how they wish they could go higher.
So my question to all of you? How would you feel?
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