I recently gave HR a target salary for the consultant level as I felt I was a high performing consultant and wanted to be paid near the top of the pay band. I just found out they promoted me to manager. How do I unbox myself from my previously stated number? Is there anyway? Or am I now stuck as a manager making top consultant money?

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The difference, from my knowledge, is about 10-15k between top consultant pay and starting manager pay

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