I was hired for a support role this past summer but now they want me to spend 50% of my time as an unofficial solutions architect because “doing support work isn't enough” (translation: we need work done for cheap)
Glassdoor average compensation for my company:
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my current title: 140k (I make 152k)
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new title: 220k
I am already qualified for the new position. They tout it as career growth but I intentionally took several steps backwards in my career for this job so I don't know what growth they think I want.
I'm planning to present the following options to my manager:
1) Give the project to someone else (eg, the senior solutions architect they assigned to help me, like wtf?). This is my ideal outcome.
2) Give me a 25% raise. This would be ~40k which I figure is reasonable since I'm meant to spend half of my time on it.
Any other solutions I'm not thinking of? If they deny my proposed options, I'll be upfront with them and tell them that I'll continue working on my support tasks/projects but will not be working on the new projects. From there, I guess they can choose to fire me or not. I was honest and told my manager during my interviews that I didn't want to do this type of work anymore.