Hey everyone,
This is a throwaway account because my friends and family know my other reddit. I suppose this is meant to be vent thread, but any advice would be greatly appreciated as well.
I've been working at my current company for a little over two years now as a company manager. I help to manage the 15 employees that we have, I do the marketing and I run our financial reporting and planning. Since starting at the company I have helped to modernize the processes and overall make things more organized and efficient.
I'll start off by saying that I make around $48K a year which is an average salary and I don't feel right complaining about it. However, I am frustrated that out of the 15 people I manage, 13 of them make more money than I do. At the lowest end, they make $10K more a year than I do, at the highest, they make $33K more a year than I do. I don't mind the huge gap for the highest earners, as they have been at the company longer than I have.
What bothers me, is that the ones who make $10K more than I do are people who were hired shortly after me. One of them is under my direct supervision and is not at the point where they can work independently.
After discussing a possible raise in December (after my raving and positive performance review resulted in no raise at all) I was ultimately given a raise, but was told to cut back my hours so that I did not work overtime. In the end, my raise ended up making me lose $300-$400 a paycheck. I realize now that I was, whether it was their intention or not, bamboozled.
I've stayed quiet about this but did end up getting a new part time job for after work hours to supplement my income. Although my salary is considered historically average, the cost of living these days is allowing me to barely live paycheck to paycheck. When I did this, my bosses were not happy that I couldn't stay later than my 8 hours because I had another job.
I feel frustrated and depleted and I don't quite know how to move forward. The company dynamic makes for a weird one. With “family” being the focus, it's actually starting to feel like that is a manipulative tactic.
I know that if I ask for a raise it will be met with “well, you need to do more” which is wild, because I am basically a company swiss-army knife, and underlying feelings of contempt, which I'd rather not live with. It's hard finding work that will be livable these days.
I don't even know why I'm typing this. I guess I just needed to get it off my chest. If you've made it this far, thank you for reading.