| Do you have a good relationship with your boss? If you do, just talk to him. He's a person and he probably wants to keep you around. "Hey, I feel like I'm doing a lot, I want to do more, and I'd like to make more money. Can we talk about it?" Prepare what you feel is a reasonable title/salary and any documentation you can give on that. From what you have written, I'd ask for Lead Engineer and see if you can find a salary range online. You could even suggest that your boss asks the bigger company what their pay range for the title would be. Also, this needs to be a realistic number. Don't look at Google salaries and expect to match. The worst way to approach it is a "I want X, give it to me". If you want to put more pressure on it, mention the LinkedIn offers you're getting - "Hey, recruiters keep reaching out to me on LinkedIn and the salaries are pretty high. I really want to stay, can we talk?" The big take away needs to be the value you have brought to the team and will continue to bring. There's only a few times I've ever straight denied a request like this. 1) We just did raises and they want more, but don't deserve it. 2) They were at the company for <6 months and their current pay was above the median. Especially when your responsibilities have grown, this should be an easy conversation. The hard part will be getting a good number. Best of luck. |