I recently joined an agency in Bay Area and I'm getting paid roughly 50K/yr. Work load is heavy and I got quickly assigned a lot of responsibilities and even have to deal with managing and training new hires. I'm fairly good and competitive on my skills but lately I'm having a feeling that I'm heavily underpaid. How much do you make working on similar agencies writing or maintaining traditional CRUD apps ?
You aren't heavily underpaid. You're criminally underpaid. Glassdoor will be helpful in looking up just how underpaid you are (check out competing agencies for a more apples-to-apples picture).<p>To give you an idea of how badly that agency is exploiting you, where I live (Atlanta), the cost of living is roughly 50% of the Bay Area. Your adjusted salary for our city is $25k, which is arguably not enough to live on.<p>On that note, if you don't get a raise, you should see how you feel about relocating to a place where the ratio of pay/cost-of-living is better. Few places in the country have a worse ratio than the Bay Area.
Unless you are desperate or just bored with IT and not interested in learning anything new. I would suggest you to stay away from CRUD dev. No offence to the CRUD devs, but I am one. Maybe I am just on the worst side of things but I really regret no one suggest me to move away from this earlier. Now I am struggling to move away. My skill as a developer is extremely poor and limited.