What am I worth?

PaulStat

PaulStat

PaulStat

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As per title really. Been in my job for just over two years now and have recently taken on quite a lot more responsibilities with as yet no pay rise. Boss recognises this and has said find out market rate and he'll fight for me to get it.

Part of the issue is how do I work that out. Summary of me

- 18 year career in various roles of development
- Lead developer dealing with both frontend and backend. Java/Angular
- Leading small team of 4 (including me)
- Acting as tech lead / architect for a key complex project for the client. I design all of the REST APIs, DB schemas, Ldap integration, Authentication, Authorisation RBAC etc etc
- Project is heavily IAM/IDAM based and I have about 6 or 7 years experience in this field so I have strong knowledge of JML processes and authentication/authorisation protocols such as Saml, oidc, oauth, kerberos. As well as experience in a few different IAM based products such as Okta, Netiq and Sailpoint (not used in a few years).

So current salary isn't bad at about 75k base. But now that I'm officially doing the design (was doing a lot of before but I was aiding an architect who has now left) , implementation and leading a small team to meet that design I think I'm due a decent pay rise. I'm not sure what's realistic though.

Given how keen my boss seems to ensure I don't go anywhere I suspect I can fit into the 75th or maybe even the 90th percentile.

Is north of 100k realistic? If so how far north?

Note I don't have any formal architecture qualifications like TOGAF for example
 
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Thanks all, company is a consultancy so whatever the client sector at the time.

Architect wasn't replaced as it's difficult finding people with the necessary clearance and I was already deeply involved with the design.
 
Hah yeah I get it's a hard question as my abilities are unknown to you all. I was also struggling to answer it, hence the question. Part of the problem was defining what my job title should be as I don't just wear one hat :D

I am actually going through a promotion cycle at the moment but that would just be a grade bump with a meaningless internal job title and a minimal bump in salary.

Had another chat with my boss today and he seemed very confident to push over the 6 figure mark as it's a valid business case. I guess we'll see
 
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