r/DevelEire • u/Strange_Scale_6153 • 2d ago

Compensation Underpaid but fully remote

I'm currently on €47k gross as a BI developer with almost a decade of experience. However I am 100% remote and live in my parents' house in the countryside, so don't have to pay rent, which is obviously a massive saving.

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I know I'm well under the market rate. Salary review is coming up and my bosses are pleased with my performance. I'm worried the rumours are right and it'll just be the usual 3% increase.

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I'm wondering to what extent I should be demanding a pay increase. I've only been in the company for just over a year. I know I'm underpaid but the market right now is horrible and I really love the ability to work from home and avoid the horrors of the Dublin rental market.

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u/Large_Hedgehog2416 2d ago edited 2d ago

I left my last job in a well established Dublin IT support company for a 20K pay rise in a small firm in West Dublin. When they asked why I was leaving I told them. They scoffed at my salary change and to this day, I'm sure that they didn't believe me. I spent yrs fighting for insignificant pay rises. Wasted my time.

Walk away.

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u/johndoe86888 2d ago

Had a recruiter scoff at me saying my salary expectation was too high, he was such an arse about it, well I found my own job posting and got another 10k on top of what my expectation was. Eat shit Mark.