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About to ask for a fair raise but I’m not sure how. How would you guys do this?

A bit of a background, I've finished my bachelor about 14 months ago and live in the Netherlands. My study's salary would roughly start between 2300 and 2500 euro's per month. Now I've got this problem. The company I'm working at is great in terms of flexibility, WFH, people and opportunities (in contrary of what I mostly read here) but there's 1 important thing lacking, salary… When I started out we agreed on a 2K monthly payment for 40 hours with an extra quarterly bonus of 1000. However that bonus system was horrible and I felt like the company used this as a way to pay less to me. Long story short but at the last minute they came and said: yeah sorry it didn't work out, better luck next time. At the same time I'm doing all the marketing activities alone because there was nothing. I had to set…


A bit of a background, I've finished my bachelor about 14 months ago and live in the Netherlands. My study's salary would roughly start between 2300 and 2500 euro's per month.

Now I've got this problem. The company I'm working at is great in terms of flexibility, WFH, people and opportunities (in contrary of what I mostly read here) but there's 1 important thing lacking, salary…

When I started out we agreed on a 2K monthly payment for 40 hours with an extra quarterly bonus of 1000. However that bonus system was horrible and I felt like the company used this as a way to pay less to me. Long story short but at the last minute they came and said: yeah sorry it didn't work out, better luck next time. At the same time I'm doing all the marketing activities alone because there was nothing. I had to set everything up myself with barely any help and even less experience.

Now I pushed my boss to get rid of that bonus and wanted a full on salary for marketing. They agreed on 200€ extra per month which results in 2.200 per month or roughly 12,60 per hour.

Like I said the starting salary here in the Netherlands is already higher than that between 2300 and 2500 and I've got another job offer of 2800.

Anyway I'm just In between things. I know I can ask for more but not sure how. It's the one thing that annoys me the most. I dont need the full-on salary because I enjoy more freedom and flexibility but I'd like to get paid more than a supermarket job for finishing my Bachelor and doing everything myself.

What would you guys do?

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