Does this sound like a reasonable pay increase request?

[Rainbowhairdontcare]

Still in the early stages with my employer, but ideally would like to have it arranged before I go on ML.

Current salary is £18k. When I get back they want to me to take a substantial amount of responsibility. It will be a hybrid between Business development.and operations manager. Similar roles outside of London are about 30-40k OTE.

Locally salaries don't go as high with the cap usually being £35k for senior roles.

I'm thinking £23k? £25k is considered a very decent salary over here, but a £7k jump.seems unrealistic to me.

Ask for an extra 10k, if you don't believe in yourself why should they ?
Good luck

It really does depend on so many things, company size and business (can they afford to pay you more/will your work make them more money), the area you live in massively effects it as you said and your experience. For my company in my area an operations manager would easily hit 40k+.

I don't think the expectation is unrealistic but you can build a case for yourself about why you want this and how your work is worth this. Also don't forget you can always say I'd be happy to work towards that salary and create milestones with your employer.

it's good to check national UK average and also age average in the UK to see where you fall also. Don't be disheartened though especially if your career is young as it's a great title to have on your CV.

DONT ASK DONT GET

I actually had a similar role at TripAdvisor (not much emphasis on business development, but the roles overlap). That was London based at £60k. I come to this company with 7 years of that experience.

Going back to my current employer, I think the most senior roles get £30k and they have been here for years (not sure if relevant as my experience comes from somewhere else).

I have the experience, language skills and contacts that they need.

@rainbowhairdontcare Sounds to me like they're undervaluing you and other employees anyway if 30k is high top. Having language skills as well is really impressive. I would just ask for what you want, build the reasons why and let them decide if it's reasonable. No hurt will come through asking.

Good luck

Unfortunately that's how it is over here. A friend of mine and I like to call it the "Cornish Cap". Even at the university I once interviewed for a fairly senior role and it was £34k.

It's not exclusive to this company, it's widespread in the county.