How much do you really earn? Honest Answers Please 🙏

What the fuck

The heck are you living at? A luxury cruise?

uber is highly unsafe but

Not really if you have dependencies and good perf. Although every company is unsafe in current market.

They are busy hustling

Here I am, since you asked !!! My salary is 7 LPA

Could you share your job role and type of company (startup/pvt)?

In UX.

Was a startup, still private, 500-700 employees, founded 7 years ago, a couple of funding rounds.

Been here for 2 years.

1. Upgrade your skills like crazy. If you offer skills and services and experience that can't be matched easily, you'll definitely be paid handsomely. Skills, experience and their demonstration gives companies reason to trust you, and a handsome salary is a reasonable price to pay from their POV. Keep in mind, for the same role your peers might get 0.75x or 2x your salary because of what they bring to the table.

2. Make sure you practically apply #1 in your current job. Get aggressive to learn and experience stuff. Make fast fail fast grow fast. First 5-7 years should be hectic to upgrade skills and experience. Become Mr Dependable.

3. Negotiate better. Don't back down from your number. When they ask you the salary range, give one number, not a range, and tell them it's non negotiable and very well thought out. Don't let them make you feel guilty or bad because of your number. If they can't give, then they can't afford you. Simple as is. Also check this nice video out - https://youtu.be/Gr861i8aB3k I didn't have this when I last negotiated, but this really boils down to what I used to do in all my negotiations. Definitely implement all he says. I would even say he mentioned one brilliant point of "don't do their work" ie, don't think oh no maybe they can't give me X so I guess I should just take X-10. NO. Fuck that. Repeating again : if they can't give you what you want, then they can't afford you. Don't let them talk you into lower number because of bs excuses like "but the industry standard is X-10" etc.

4. Don't underestimate yourself. A friend of mine applied to a company he thought was out of his league. That was 4 years ago. He is now earning very handsomely in it. He gave it a chance and applied thinking apply karne me kya hi ja raha. You'll miss 100% of the shots you don't take etc.

5. Have a good network of colleagues and peers. Goto events, make connections. Have genuine good professional relationships and maybe even out of office frien

#5 continued. Having good network and friends opens up many doors like crazy. I think we should probably have a thread about that as well, I'm sure lot of us have lots of stories of how our network and contacts landed us great jobs.