Hello all and bear with me on this as I’m on mobile and this just recently happened in my life and am looking for advice.
Like the rest of you with the recent increase in inflation and cost of living going up it’s gotten hard to get by. I’m a single male living on my own in my 30s and over the past year I got a job that was rather amazing. I started out at 60k a year and I was so stoked and happy I was cheering in my car when I was accepted and crying tears of joy because it was so surreal and I would no longer be paycheck to paycheck and finally sleep well at night knowing I wouldn’t have to worry about bills and rent. Fast forward to today. My rent has gone up 50%, what I usually buy for groceries costs 60 dollars more and just everything is more expensive.
I decided to ask for a raise at my current place of work and was told I should have gotten a 3% yearly bonus (which I haven’t yet) and positive vibes that things will be ok. In reality that 3% doesn’t make much of a difference because even with that 60k I make a year I’m now going back paycheck to paycheck. Again.
Now for the part in question I was head hunted recently and they offered an interview and I’m wondering now if I should just flat out lie and currently say I’m making 68k to my potential future employer and see if they’ll match or go higher then bring that back to my current work and say I was head hunted and this is how much they’re offering me to see if they’ll pay more to keep me. I have been doing more work and adding more to my responsibilities at my current job to justify a raise to keep up. Would I be in the wrong for scheming for more money to survive?
How would you all handle this?
Thanks!