is 6 months too early to ask for a raise?

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Unless it was discussed upon hiring or you've brought in a massive new account, probably. Give it another 6 months. Start tooting your own horn and getting feedback to ensure you're actually where you need to be to get that raise.

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Aside from the fact that you want to make more money (welcome to the club), what have you accomplished that warrants a raise? I'm not saying that you don't have accomplishments that warrant one, but most people have barely figured out how to do timesheets at 6 months.

Your first year in this business is pretty much a test run to see if you can being together your work ethic, curiosity, talent and social skills to be able to produce a product that your agency can sell. Juniors are expected to go from knowing pretty much zilch on day one, to showing that they can take a brief and contribute something acceptable to a client somewhere around the 12-24 month mark. At that point, the agency decides to invest in you and promote you, along with a raise.

If you are killing it as a Junior, good things can happen around the 12 month mark. The average Junior to Mid promotion at my agency is usually around 18-24. Past that, something's probably off.

You're an unknown during that first year-also known as a "calculated risk". Which is why you're not paid much. Once you've proven yourself, you're no longer a risk-you're an asset. And it usually takes longer than 6 months to establish a pattern worth investing more money in.

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fair enough lol

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Yes.

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