To ask for double my daily rate for the extra day?

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I've NC as this is all very personal.

I'll start with saying I don't currently live in the UK so benefits/ tax while very similar where I am are different.

I currently work 3 days per week, I receive social welfare along with this and also pay nothing in childcare due to being under the gov threshold.

My employer would like me to take on further responsibilities and work an extra day, she didn't put pressure on me and said she wanted to run it by me before looking for someone else externally. Her words 'she would love to have me FT, but this new role is also 3 days so she's thinking I'll do 4 days and we can take on a junior for 2 days'

Money - I am currently on 24k, so 8k per day. In order for this to financially be worth my while I would need to ask for 40k, so 16k for 1 extra day. I will lose all social welfare (naturally) and will lose most of my gov allowance for childcare, for either increase.

If I was put onto 32k I would only be €64 better off per month. 40k has me €418 better off per month.

It seems like a huge amount to ask for for 1 extra day. We only spoke about it this morning, she said to think about it and that I have first refusal.

YABU - don't ask for 40k, they will think you are a CF
YANBU - ask for 40k, no point in doing it if it's not worth while

You are absolutely worth £40k.

Make the case for what you could bring to them.

First - do you want to work the extra day? And if so, is that becuase it is an interesting and useful move for your longer-term career or because you want to earn more money?

If the former, you might have to suck up the fact that financially it's not actually that great on the basis that longer term, there will be other benefits, including financial.

If the latter, then I would explain the problem to her. Point out that you would love to earn more money and work more but you are on that cusp where losing your benefits means that any increase in pay needs to be substantial to make it worthwhile.

It is a perennial problem. There is an argument, that if you are able to work then you should lose the benefits and work instead. But at the same time, if you are working part time, the thought of a massively increasing your work for very little money isn't very appealling, understandably.

@OhBling I would like both. It would be good for my career. I am professionally qualified in my field so it would be progression. I do plan on hopefully having another baby within the next 18 months too. So that's a spanner in the works for the company but they don't know that. They might guess it (my age/ have a toddler) but it hasn't been said.

No the thought of increasing my work load by what would probably be a lot for very little money isn't very appealing at all. I would also lose a day with DC every week.

But I do want it! I think I'll just have to tell her what way the figures are working out and see what she says. She's a very understanding boss