Originally Posted by
Flixy
Thanks for the replies, appreciate your views.
Wiggin, I do in principle agree with your view. And I do realise that lacking the right papers or specific experience means you may start lower and have to prove yourself. I've even been there - especially my starter job straight after dropping out of my MSc. I started low, but performed well and quickly got additional tasks and responsibilities, and asked for opportunities and got them. And also got a salary increase to match my work. Side note, but that company was good at judging on performance - one of my team members had no formal educatiom, started as a cleaner, showed potential and ended up making heart valves.
Even at my current job I started a little lower than coworkers, but again proved my worth and got a raise to match, and assigned to challenging tasks and projects. I appreciate the reasoning behind that.
However this is an agency (consultancy I suppose). I know the rate they charge clients for me, which is essentially the same as coworkers with a MSc and a PDEng. If they a) think I can do the job, and b) charge clients accordingly.. it seems unfair to get paid significantly (10+%) less.
Anyway, I'll get back to them and negotiate, and at the same time found another interesting opportunity with its own pros and cons, so we'll see.