If you knew your company pays you less than 5% of what you earn them… would you stick around?
Unless you know how to get an inside look at the company’s financial sheet, it’s quite impossible to know exactly how profitable you are to the company you work for. Obviously, they make money off of you; they wouldn’t have hired you, but exactly how much they have left after they pay your salary is not public knowledge that you can easily access.
When your job includes working with clients, you might be able to get a better idea of how much your work earns the company if you manage to find out how much the client is paying them. If a client pays your company $50,000 for your work, and you get $10,000 out of it, well, it should be easy enough to calculate your profit compared to the company’s. Then it’s up to you to decide if that’s a fair trade.
The employee below, who worked as a UX architect for a company, discovered that while a client paid the company $70k for their work, they only earned about $1500. This meant that their employer sold their work for x23 what they paid them, and we can all agree that this is a terrible trade.
The even worse part was that the employee never got a chance to quit after finding that out, and instead got fired by the greedy boss. Luckily, the employee was not left without a job for long, as they quickly joined the client’s company and started doing the work in-house, while the original employer was left without their biggest client.
By firing this employee, they signed the company up for failure, and within a year, the company completely crashed. All while the UX architect got to hold on to their actual work, and get paid much more for it…
They shared their full story on an online community, and you can read it all down below. Scroll down to do so, and after that, check out this story of a manager who bans employees from sitting on chairs during their shifts.
Author: Kayitsi.com
