Posting on behalf of my wife, as she doesn't have Reddit. We work for the same company, currently fully remote. She has held an assistant supervisor position for the past 6 years and was finally offered a promotion to supervisor. The problem is that she is currently hourly and while not guaranteed, the trend has been that there is plenty of OT available throughout the year. The company offered her ~$1 per hour raise on her base salary but it will be exempt, meaning no possibility of OT. Including bonuses received last year and OT pay, the offer comes out to nearly $8K a year less.
Her boss (who is also being promoted) said that the company won't budge off their offer. My advice was to counter and explain that while OT is not guaranteed, the 5 year trend shows that it isn't going away. My wife isn't sure that she wants to try to counter because she doesn't want to “make waves”. I've never gone from hourly to salary within the same company, so I don't know if this is a normal strategy by companies and am not entirely sure how to go about the counter without causing potential issues for ourselves (at will employment state in the US). Anyone else run into this type of situation? Thanks in advance!