FI Weekly – February 1, 2022: Negotiating Salary, Excel & Google Sheets Hacks, Inflation and FI
Negotiating Your Salary One of the most pleasant surprises from our run of 500+ ChooseFI podcast episodes is how many people have listened to Episode 147 with Tori Dunlap and Episode 211 with Financial Mechanic and taken action to negotiate their salaries to great success. I try to include as many of these as I can in the weekly ‘taking action’ section below because they are inspiring to me personally since this was always something I didn’t have the guts to do in my corporate career. I simply accepted the pitiful 3% raises I received, and it led to a lot of frustration. I wanted to include a link to the Financial Mechanic’s incredible resource entitled, “7 Tips for Negotiating – How I Doubled My Salary in Two Years” and implore you to click on the link and thoroughly read through it and take action on implementing this in your own career. To whet your appetite, here is Financial Mechanic’s list which she fully fleshes out in the article with in-depth and specific scripts on how to succeed at salary negotiation: The 7 Tips:1. Put off talking salary in the early stages2. Do your research to know your worth3. Remember that you