Have you ever changed jobs and got a really significant payrise?

[UnrulyPig]

I've seen a job that I'm really tempted to apply for...but the salary uplift is making me feel as if I might be wasting my time applying. I think I need some career advice!

The job would increase my salary by about 60%. It's tangentially related to my current role but would be a definite career change, more consultancy-based. I have the academic qualifications they ask for and some relevant experience although I'm not sure it's at a high enough level.

I kind of fell into my current role and have a bit of imposter syndrome, having moved in a few years from the most junior job in the dept to a senior management position. I enjoy what I do on the whole (and have great colleagues, again on the whole!) but I absolutely need a change and a career refresh. I believe I could do this job but the money they're paying makes me think they'd want someone, well, better than me.

Tell me your stories of your successful aspirational job applications!

Apply anyway, find out more about it.

I was at a talk before and they said a woman could have 8 out of 10 requirements and think she was not qualified to apply, whereas a man would apply if he only had 3 or 4.

Apply, then decide. You thought you couldn't do the senior job either, and you can!

I now earn 6.5 times my graduate salary (though pro-rata as I'm PT). Never got a major increase through staying at the same place, but 4 of 5 times I moved it was for a significant increase.

Each time I've asked for more than what I thought I deserved, and they've agreed straight away. DH reckons it's because a man in my position would be asking for so much more!

@caffeinebuzz l do the same. Partner laughs that l go in all guns blazing but why short change ourselves? Men rarely do that

Yes, I did. Go for it! I could tell by the end of the interview that I’d probably got the job, so when it came to the salary negotiations I aimed very high & was successful.

Best of luck!!

Yep I did and thanks that brief moment of self belief it’s dictated how much I can now charge as a contractor.

FYI, when I moved, doubling my salary, I knew in about two weeks the job wasn’t right, but misused straight back with recruiters as it was the SUBJECT that was wrong, it wasn’t my ability. Granted, I felt the intellectual stretch for a while when I jumped again but I made that job mine within 6 months.

So: 25k, 50k, 50k, contractor.

Yes I have found increases between £10k to £15k each time moving - which happened about five times to go from £20k at starting to low 6 figure.

Go for it best way to increase salary. Especially as it’s a switch to consultancy so there’s a reason for the increase.

This is a great thread! Very inspirational and just what I needed to hear this morning. I've never had a salaried job and I'm currently in minimum wage applying for a 25k pro rata job.

I've got everything crossed that I get an interview, I've had to seriously flower up some of my experience because while I know I can do the job I needed help 'proving' it on my application. Something I'm sure a lot of men are happy to do!

I'm about to start a new job. Combination increase in hours and a pay rise will mean I go from about 34k to 50k in April. Go for it!

Yes I have and I recognise that feeling that you are having.

What I try and tell myself is that even 'if' I don't have all the qualifications and experience they want they may still offer me the role with less salary (but more than I am on) with room to grow.

Go for it.

Totally agree with the posters who said what would a man do? I applied for a job that was a leap in pay and in responsibility, they refused me an interview and offered one for a lower position that was below my current salary instead. I came home and moaned to my husband who suggested I email them back telling them they were wrong and addressing the areas they'd said I was weak in My toes were curling. I got an interview and got the job!

I went from £31k to £72k in one job move. It can happen !

I've been at the same company for years. Last year we had a restructure and I had a pay rise, upped my hours and took on some regular overtime all at once. It amounted to about £15k gross.

Not quite the same as it was a permanent to contractor role, but went from 23k to a ,£400 a day role (so about 88k).

I honestly thought it was a typo when I saw the advertised rate and job description.

Yes, I went from 28 to 45k in one job move. I didn't think I would get the job at all, at any stage of the process (informal and then two formal interviews) but I did!
Go for it-they can only say no and even then is great interview experience

Loads of inspirational stories here, thank you! Just what I needed . OK, I'll write the application tonight - the worst that can happen is that I don't get an interview and I'll have lost nothing because I know it's a long shot anyway.

In my current role I really can't go any further unless I apply for head of department, which a) I really don't want to do, it's a completely thankless task and b) I would need to start (and eventually finish!) a PhD and I'm not up for that whilst also working full-time. So I do really need to move sideways-and-up if I want to progress salary-wise.

I completely agree about 'what would a man do?' I'll give it a go and see what happens.

Figures not in GBP but I went 18 to 36 on qualification (fairly standard) then to 41 a couple of years later (again fairly standard) then jumped to 55 when I quit and ended up in 'name your price to stay') and then a jump to 76 when I really quit a year and a half later (I made an extremely cheeky ask of 85!). I've learnt if you don't put yourself out there you don't get. I'd never have dreamed two years ago I'd be on this much now! I'm very good at what I do but I don't think I should be paid this much. I'll be buggered if I'll accept being paid less than others though.

I’ve moved up gradually and it’s the best feeling.

I now pay more in tax than I received for my monthly earnings in my first ‘salaries’ job.

Bloody hell people!! Some great stuff on here.

OP have you applied? Hope you have!

So interesting about men applying when they have less of the required experience/qualities. I’d definitely only apply if I had 9/10 I think.

My DH did, he was working in a really crappy job that he hated and wasn't appreciated. He brought home £1200 a month (basic) and just before Christmas 2018 he applied for a new job, sort of doing what he did but on a bigger scale and at night (he works on the roads and he was working on normal A and B roads, now he's on A and M roads!) they gave him the job and it came with a £1000 a month extra! And in the day after his last shift in his 4 (he works 4 on/4 off) his supervisor texts everybody thanking them for all their work which I thought was a really nice touch. He's loving it and we have so much more money than we ever used to, we even have a cleaner now!!

I did. Went from a part time job at £21k pro rata to a full time job at £37.5k this year. I more than doubled my take home salary.

I was underachieving in the part time role but I'd lost loads of confidence having had some personal set backs.