How much does current salary affect your offer?

[almoststew1990]

Fortunately this is a hypothetical question. How much would someone's current salary affect your offer when moving to a new company?

Would you, as someone responsible for offering a position / salary, offer someone less if there current salary is not competitive on the basis the jump would be the same?

I ask this as someone has recently been promoted from a graduate to the level up. They are on 5k more than I was ( and this is on a <30k salary) when I got promoted from graduate to the next level at a different company! (albeit that was several year ago)

So I'm wondering does a "supressed" salary follow you around in a way? Do you sort of have to claw your way out of it?

I say hypothetical question as I'm fairly sure my salary is now fairly competitive as I had a number of offers and was open about competing salaries/offers.

 

[almoststew1990]

@Moley @dowie not going to even try quoting your responses on my phone but thanks, that's interesting but also as I expected.

I was unaware I spent the first five years of my career underpaid as I was simply unaware of typical salaries! All adverts would simply say "competitive salary"! This was all at one company too until I moved this summer so where I started at that company with a depressed salary, I ended depressed salary relative to the role, just as you said.

Whilst I'm still fairly sure in my salary is reasonable as it literally was competitive its still good info to bear in mind moving forward.