I've only worked for two employers including the one I'm working for now, and typically 0-4 years is junior, 5-9 years is intermediate and 10+ is senior. Those are just rough guidelines and they aren't really applicable to everyone, I'm sure we've all worked with "senior" level resources that don't know what they're doing.
I say I'm considered senior because I was hired as an intermediate but have been billed out as a senior before on more than one project.
I was hired on at my current employer in February of 2004 and in the nearly 2 years I've been with them I have not received a raise. I lowballed my expected salary to 42,000 CAD when I was hired since I had no formal education but 4 years of experience. I managed to win an award from them in my first month of employment but still nada.
I've since gone to school to get a piece of paper, while still working 1/2 time. I'm starting to feel a little underappreciated even though I'm usually given framework/system level assignments, and senior level resources come to me with questions.
Am I being unreasonable to expect a raise even though I'm in school?
I've begrudingly convinced myself to wait until I graduate next summer before asking, but I'd like to make what I think I deserve which is somewhere between $52,000 and $60,000 and I don't think they'll give me that much of a raise in one go.
Any thoughts?
P.S. I'm considered a Senior Java, Web, and PL/SQL developer.
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I've only worked for two employers including the one I'm working for now, and typically 0-4 years is junior, 5-9 years is intermediate and 10+ is senior. Those are just rough guidelines and they aren't really applicable to everyone, I'm sure we've all worked with "senior" level resources that don't know what they're doing.
I say I'm considered senior because I was hired as an intermediate but have been billed out as a senior before on more than one project.
I was hired on at my current employer in February of 2004 and in the nearly 2 years I've been with them I have not received a raise. I lowballed my expected salary to 42,000 CAD when I was hired since I had no formal education but 4 years of experience. I managed to win an award from them in my first month of employment but still nada.
I've since gone to school to get a piece of paper, while still working 1/2 time. I'm starting to feel a little underappreciated even though I'm usually given framework/system level assignments, and senior level resources come to me with questions.
Am I being unreasonable to expect a raise even though I'm in school?
I've begrudingly convinced myself to wait until I graduate next summer before asking, but I'd like to make what I think I deserve which is somewhere between $52,000 and $60,000 and I don't think they'll give me that much of a raise in one go.
Any thoughts?
P.S. I'm considered a Senior Java, Web, and PL/SQL developer.
Thanks.