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How to Ask for More Money (and Get It)

Success

I had been casually blogging for about a year, so the prospect of creating content for pay was thrilling—even if it was just $30 per 500-word post. I won’t say those factors have no influence, but they’re neither limitations nor absolutes in dictating your salary. I landed my first writing gig in 2013.

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Answering Reader Mail on Salary, Finding Great Talent

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Still trying to keep up with my blog and column to answer your great questions and comments! The most popular question on this column is about salary and this is the answer I wrote: How much can the best executive assistants earn in a year? Or if you want to promote them mention, the right assistant will be promoted after 2-3 years.

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Quiet Hiring: Admin Professional Trend

Bonnie Low-Krayman

She offered a proposal for a revised onboarding plan to the HR team, including the fact that she would be the project leader with a revised salary to go along with the plan. Her plan was happily accepted by the overloaded HR team.

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Steel Magnolias, Barbie, and Other Wise Women – In Celebration of a Complicated Women’s History Month By Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low-Krayman

My work product speaks for itself and letting down my guard and inviting others into my life on another level promotes and strengthens our relationships and the respect that I receive from others, including the compensation I command. I should not have a “mommy penalty” on my salary because I have children and neither should you.

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Saying ‘no’ nicely

Practically Perfect PA

A short and sweet blog post today. If we are always busy doing work for colleagues that they should do themselves we could be missing out on really great projects which could get us promoted, increase our salary – or who knows what!

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Career Success A to Z: L is for Lifelong Learning

Eat Your Career

However, you should never do it with the sole intention of demanding a higher salary or promotion based on the shiny certificate you’ll possess when completed. Members have the option to sign up and receive blog posts directly in their email inbox as soon as they are published.

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Is an Executive Assistant Certificate for You?

Office Dynamics

There are two main points I want to make in this blog: An administrative certificate or certification does not guarantee success, a salary increase, new title or promotion. It still boils down to what someone does with what they learn.

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