Ever had a comp conversation blow up in your face? I asked my manager what it would take to move into the next pay band, and she said, “I didn’t know you were unhappy.” That was… not the point. I thought I was being proactive, not dramatic. It’s made me super hesitant to bring it up again. How do you bring up comp without it sounding like an ultimatum?

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I don’t know… it seems like a pretty fair response… you wouldn’t be asking about the shift in pay bands if you truly believed that you were properly compensated for your role… it very well could have been a knee-jerk reaction, if it was a simple ‘pop-in’….

How I’ve handled it in the past… I’ve put time on my managers calendar and titled it something like “1:1/Performance & Compensation Review”… this way, they know what the conversation is about, and are prepared to engage in the conversation… I knew exactly what it was that I wanted out of the conversation, and worked through how to control the narrative… sometimes I was able to get what I requested, sometimes there were areas for improvement…

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Be mindful of how you are starting that conversation. You want the option for growth and to learn. Without context, that can easily be misunderstood as being unhappy in the current role.

I don’t know, “move to the next pay band”, seems pretty clear to me.

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I think you can say something like, “it’s not that I’m unhappy, it’s that I feel I’m not progressing” and turn it back around as an issue of career progression rather than unhappiness

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