Started as 3rd line software support and over 4 years, I have climbed to junior dev and eventually mid level dev. I'm the "go to" person for system knowledge, due to support experience, and still expected to help out across support & mentor support staff. End of April, I received a call from my line manager who said I've been performing well above junior for some time and they want to promote me to mid effective from the next day. Salary went from £33k - £35k - I feel this is minimal. Thoughts?

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That does seem really low, especially if your city has a HCOL. I know the job market isn't very good right now, but have you considered looking for a different job? Sometimes changing jobs is the best way to get your salary to where it should be.

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Tbh, I've been looking for jobs since about 6 weeks in of the salary review being point blank ignored. From my perspective, they've essentially got me working across 3 teams and have been for a while before the promotion, helping those constantly while being expected to deliver sprint goals simultaneously and it appears, while essentially doing 3 jobs, I'm not being paid correctly for one on my job title. The ignoring was the icing on the cake for me as I find it rather disrespectful - at least tell me no. However, as you say, I'm finding the market to be rather difficult atm although each company that has been in touch has been offering more, and had agencies telling me I basically got an "inflation increase" - hence why I thought I'd ask here.

To add, I immediately sent a formal salary review to my manager who ignored it for nearly 3 months before giving me what I felt like were excuses. Other staff members with less technical skills and less responsibility, are being paid up to £8k more. And a new staff member who joined support 2 months ago is earning what I started junior Dev at and has been "given decision making authority" even though I trained him.

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