salary battle

For people in the workplace, money depends on financial management, and people rely on salary to make money, so salary can be said to be the foundation of survival. Someone once calculated that about 90% of a person's income comes from his professional income in his lifetime, and salary brings us a rich life and enjoyment. Salary is also an intuitive manifestation of the value of a person in the workplace. A high salary means that one's own value can be recognized by the boss and the society. Salary is an eternal topic in the workplace. The fight for paychecks runs through our entire careers.

Ability, position and industry create high salary

Who doesn't expect a high salary? High salary not only means rich material enjoyment and adequate living security, but also a monetary embodiment of social value, which brings physical satisfaction while pursuing career ideals. However, what kind of salary can be called a high salary? The bottom-line answer given by Worry-free Future is - an annual salary of 300,000 yuan.

In our city with a population of more than 16 million, the number of professionals with an annual salary of more than 300,000 yuan is only a very small proportion of "cutting-edge". Especially when you leave school, you can get a high-paying "job". Maybe some elites who are really outstanding can enjoy this honor. For example, in 2005, a graduate of Shanghai Jiaotong University entered a foreign bank to work. The first year's annual salary is It reached 300,000 yuan, setting the highest salary for fresh graduates. For the vast majority of high-paying professionals, every high-paying job has an uneven career path and a story of hard work.

Liang Siqian, the high-paying protagonist in our article, was among the high-paying ranks before the age of 35, but her first monthly salary was only 500 yuan. In the ten-year career struggle, she has changed jobs three times, worked as a doctor, worked as a customer service staff for baby products, and finally found a position with an annual salary of 350,000 yuan in a pharmaceutical company. Liang Siqian's experience shows the secret of high salary for most people - ability, position and industry.

It doesn't look like she has any advanced job-hopping skills. It seems that chance has made her high salary - every time an olive branch is extended to her, her salary will double every time she changes job. But in fact, fate has no special favor for anyone, and opportunities will always be provided to those who are prepared. It is Liang Siqian who finds her own direction in the workplace, continuously cultivates her professional cultivation, and accumulates enough energy in her domestic career, that has created her brilliant foreign career.

The industry's stage of development and reliance on human capital is also a factor in high salaries. In high value-added industries—pharmaceuticals, chips, and chemicals, and in intellectual industries—consulting, advertising, legal, and financial services, people are often able to receive higher salaries than other industries. But Liang Siqian's work experience also verifies another point of worry-free future - people who can get high salaries are generally concentrated in positions above the director level. Each of her career journeys is a vertical promotion of her position. "The income difference brought about by the position is far greater than the difference between industries."

The road to salary increases is increasing

Supply and demand determine prices, and the most basic principles in economics also apply to the workplace. In the workplace, if less supply meets greater demand, the result is bound to be high wages. But it is also doomed that a high salary is not a fruit that everyone can pick. In contrast, a salary increase is an easier path to take.

Workplace experts believe that due to the flow and openness of the talent market, people in the workplace pay more attention to the external environment, while ignoring the path of internal promotion, which is relatively easier to improve workplace status and salary income. And the second protagonist in our article, Pang Ping, is looking at the direction of internal promotion. He has worked in the same company for nearly ten years, from staff, section chief, director, manager... the position has risen all the way, and the salary has increased all the way.

"Pang Ping is a very insightful person." Workplace experts commented. At the very beginning of his personal career, Pang Ping also encountered setbacks. He was a doctor but was not used to the "grey" phenomenon in the hospital. He wanted to become a lawyer, but found that this path was not suitable for him. In the end, he chose the insurance industry as his career direction. "If you want to get a salary increase or job promotion, the first step is to find your own position. In a position that is not suitable for you, you can't exert your ability. How to talk about career development and salary increase?" This time Pang Ping found his position, and with his professional skills and serious and responsible work attitude, he has made great strides in the workplace.

Pang Ping said that the "two gold" theory taught to him by his supervisor who interviewed him has benefited him throughout his life. For many professionals, at the beginning of each career, the company will not pay too much salary, especially in some experienced and skill-based industries, the income curve is gentle and rising. But experience and money are interchangeable at some stages, in this case, with the rise of experience, those with high experience and high skills will eventually stand out, and the income line will gradually move towards the peak of wealth.

Pang Ping relied to a large extent on the "unnatural salary increase", relying on excellent work ability and appropriate workplace skills, "salary love" sang all the way. But in fact, the natural salary increase is also of great significance to the workplace. In different development stages of the industry, due to the demand for talents and the profitability of the industry, the actual income increase of workers in the workplace will also vary. In the following articles, this magazine will give you a detailed introduction.

Get out of the "salary reduction" minefield

The development of every industry has to experience ups and downs. In the process of rapid to steady development, workers in the workplace will inevitably encounter "salary reduction" "The embarrassing situation. After a smooth career, he won a golden job right after graduation, but now he is facing a pay cut, what should he do? The third protagonist, Li Lin, asked such a question.

People in the industry can divide the salary reduction into two situations. One is the decline in the absolute value of the salary, and the other is that the growth rate of the salary cannot exceed the range of the price increase. , but after deducting the effects of inflation, real incomes fell instead. In the context of insufficient real purchasing power and slowing economic development, Li Lin is not the only person in the workplace who is worried about "salary cuts".

How to get out of the "pay cut" minefield? The opinion of workplace experts is that the opening of capital makes most industries go through a process of diluting profits, emerging industries or industries that are rapidly expanding under certain backgrounds, and the high profits they bring will eventually be averaged. replaced by profit. In addition to facing the salary change with a calm mind, workers in the workplace must maintain a vigilant mind. Only by grasping your own value information in the talent market, choosing the right opportunity to turn, constantly adjusting yourself in the dynamic, and looking at problems with a developmental perspective, can you always maintain a positive and good workplace situation.

Financial management, defending salary and fighting fruits

Salary is the cornerstone of personal wealth, fighting for high salary, salary increase, and prevention of salary reduction, we have fought hard all the way, in order to enjoy more wonderful life and gain more Much wealth in life. But in order to truly live a worry-free life, the wonderful salary cannot be separated from the company of financial management, and the fruits of the salary battle must be defended by financial management.

Actually, salary is the most basic figure in financial planning, but wealth starts from this basic figure and accumulates step by step through reasonable financial planning, good financial habits, and practical investment tools.

For professionals, financial planning should be in line with their income characteristics. For example, for high-paying workplace people, it is necessary to emphasize planning ahead in financial planning. High salaries bring about an increase in living standards, but no one can get high salaries forever. Therefore, the most important thing in financial planning is to ensure your dependence on a high standard of living through prudent investments. For those in the workplace with a steady increase in salary growth, they need to pay more attention to active investment methods to add fuel to their wealth. For those in the workplace who may experience a "salary reduction" crisis, the most important thing is to ensure the liquidity of assets in financial planning, and reserve at least three months of reserves to avoid the passive situation brought about by the crisis in the workplace. .

So in the final analysis, the process of life is not destined to be easy and comfortable. We not only fight for the salary, but also manage the money for the salary.

In this issue of financial management, three managers in Shanghai are taken as examples, and financial experts are invited to analyze on-site, and tell you the secrets of "pursuing high salary", "striving for salary increase" and "preventing salary reduction".

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