My current salary is around 150$ in Nepal. (I am underpaid, my colleagues with same experience are making around 250$). After few months, I will be experienced for 1.5 years. There is a big company in Nepal and I heard they pay 1.5 YOE 600$ per month.<p>I talked with my colleague and he told me that you've just 150$ now, and if you ask for 600$ you won't get it, which I agree.<p>I've already contacted my manager here in this company and he has clarified that the ceiling of appraisal is 250$ this year from 150$.<p>If this contunues, I will forever be left years behind my colleagues.
What to do?
Here is how I did it a million years ago when I got 3 raises in a year at Travelocity and doubled my income.<p>1. I came back from a military deployment and was reassigned from marketing to product development. My salary had fallen off the bottom side of the pay scale. My manager noticed this and gave me a big raise. Had I brought this to his attention earlier I would have gotten that raise earlier.<p>2. I applied to become the A/B test engineer for the company. That position came with a raise and a promotion. While in that position I pioneered new techniques that allowed faster test delivery at extreme durability (vanilla JS and old style DOM methods). I demonstrated high value and they couldn’t find anybody competent to replace me.<p>3. A little after really figuring how to write those A/B test experiments some other company tried to poach me at a higher rate. I brought their offer letter back to Travelocity who then gave me a raise exceeding the number on the offer letter.
You don't, it's a waste of time. Instead, you work to get into another company, like the one you mentioned.<p>I've never once in my career heard of a case where someone successfully got a raise at the same company greater than they could've gotten by changing job.<p>The effect is especially pronounced earlier in career. Juniors start at such a low basis that even if the company, using typical percentage based raises, gives a generous raise of 10%, it's usually not aligned with the change in market value, and they can get 20 or 30% plus by job hopping.<p>I saw a job-hopping junior double their salary in the space of two years due to this effect. I also saw a "junior" who was basically at senior level of performance continue to sit in the same job earning an entry level wage for year after year. It bordered on masochism.<p>Companies just aren't very good at marking juniors to market. The only solution is to do it yourself.