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Old Apr 18, 2014, 02:27 PM
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Hourly wages are different from contract/salary wages. The $11 to $14 sounds pretty good to me for a first job (I have bachelor degrees and advanced education) and a small company. With hourly wages, there is no negotiation, if there were going to be negotiation they would have done that when they were in the hiring process, asked you how much you wanted to make per year and then negotiated with you for how much they could offer and your salary would have been stated as $22,880 ($11 an hour x 40 hours x 52 weeks) and you would get a percentage increase/cost-of-living sort of raise or "step" increase, etc. You realize $14/hr. is $29,120, a pretty good increase for 6 months? Unless you are technically trained (a computer programmer, beginning engineer, architect, etc. can start at $55,000-$65,000+ for example), $30,000 for a business or liberal arts degree is pretty good I think.

I would do as Michanne suggests, get some good experience and move on in 2-3 years.
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