How to Ask for a Raise in IT
How IT professionals ask for raises: timing your request, preparing market data, the raise conversation structure, negotiating beyond base salary, and...
The exact change
The average tenure for an IT professional before seeking a new job is 2-3 years; professionals who do not negotiate internally often seek external raises by changing employers, which is effective but disruptive.
Median employee tenure runs under 4 years overall, and younger tech workers tend toward the shorter end of that range; professionals who do not negotiate internally often seek external raises by changing employers, which is effective but disruptive.
Suggested change
BEFORE: "The average tenure for an IT professional before seeking a new job is 2-3 years..." AFTER: "Median employee tenure runs under 4 years overall, and younger tech workers tend toward the shorter end of that range..."
Why this is better
Applied the fix described in this contribution's suggested_change: replaced the uncited 2-3 years IT professional tenure figure with the better-supported range based on real BLS and industry data (overall median tenure around 3.9 years as of Jan 2024, tech-sector tenure around 3.8 years, with the 25-34 age bracket closer to 2.8 years). Verified via re-fetch of live post id 724 (asking-for-a-raise-in-it) that the uncited figure is gone and replaced with the hedged, better-supported statement, and HTML tags remain balanced.
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