Timeline for Most effective way to increase programmer salary besides just doing your job?
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| Oct 12, 2015 at 23:41 | comment | added | Steven A. Lowe | @omouse: because it works? :) | |
| Oct 11, 2015 at 14:57 | comment | added | user7433 | You can only change employers so many times before they start flagging you for "job hopping!" How is this an acceptable answer AT ALL? | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 2:05 | comment | added | T. Webster | Yes this has worked for me. And it helps to show you are "good". E.g. programming projects or apps that are popular, stackoverflow answers, YouTube videos. This is how I increased my salary by $50K (2012) by taking a more difficult job. @NemanjaTrifunovic has a point. There are exceptions. | |
| Feb 24, 2012 at 5:30 | comment | added | S.Robins | +1 and Amen to that. In most cases, it's probably the only way to get a promotion too, unless you like waiting around for 30 years for someone else to either die or retire! | |
| Feb 24, 2012 at 1:26 | history | edited | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 23, 2011 at 2:25 | comment | added | Jim G. | @Nemanja Trifunovic: Good luck. | |
| May 22, 2011 at 15:32 | comment | added | Nemanja Trifunovic | @Kevin. It may matter. I was involved in hiring sw engineers at my previous job, and job-hoppers were not taken into account no matter how good they were. We were developing a pretty complex system, and a year was just enough to become productive. At my current job, most people stay 5+ years, and there are many who are here for 10 years. | |
| May 14, 2011 at 23:44 | comment | added | Kevin | Short stints may give you a reputation as a job-hopper, but it's not going to matter because (good) programmers are in short supply. | |
| May 14, 2011 at 13:24 | comment | added | Wayne Molina | Agreed. The only way to raise your salary is to work for a company that values you more than your current one. | |
| May 14, 2011 at 12:24 | vote | accept | T. Webster | ||
| May 14, 2011 at 12:17 | comment | added | msvb60 | +1. This is the number one most effective way to increase salary. | |
| May 14, 2011 at 10:55 | comment | added | quant_dev | It depends, I had a year when my salary increased by 41% without changing jobs. | |
| May 14, 2011 at 5:19 | comment | added | JUST MY correct OPINION | On average I changed jobs once every three years. I maintained over that time a consistent salary increase of 15% per year. My average salary increase on the years where I didn't switch was only about 4-5%. Do the math. Changing employers is the only reliable way to advance your salary appreciably. | |
| May 14, 2011 at 3:30 | comment | added | Bernard Dy | Yep. This is sad but true in nearly all organizations. | |
| May 14, 2011 at 3:29 | comment | added | Bobby Tables | True, but there is a balance. You don't want to get the reputation of being an extreme job hopper. eg. A CV with nothing but 1 year stints on it does't look good to employers who are looking for a permanent salaried employee (Contracting and short stints is a separate story though). | |
| May 14, 2011 at 3:21 | history | answered | Steven A. Lowe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |