# How much of a $ bump should I ask for when considering a jump into management? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 3, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-bump-should-i-ask-for-when-considering-a-jump-into-management/604900 "2011-12-03T00:00:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![lurkedtolong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@lurkedtolong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkedtolong)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-bump-should-i-ask-for-when-considering-a-jump-into-management/604900/5 "2011-12-04T01:39:56Z")
working at a fabrication company in 2001 i was hired at around 17.50 plus company paid my car bill, around $450. Just a 9 to 5er making parts on machines. Became manager around 2003 and went to about $24 hr plus car was paid off, and was offered 1% of total profit for the year. Didn’t care to much about the 1% profit sharing in fact i made a big stick about it, but when the first year I got a check for about 11k and the next year it was about 24k. After that it leveled back to around 10k a year. They also matched the profit if we put it into a charles schwab MMA account. I did this for a year or two but decided the money in my bank was better for me at the time. Becoming a manager was more money, and the job was to make sure production stayed where it was at or better. 2008 laid off when company moved, recieved a bill from company to pay back a weeks pay (around 7 or 8 hundred) Compained that this was unfair, upper management was not pleased with the HR mistake and gave me a 10k severance. Working at a radio shack a long long time ago, i made around $400 a week. Went to assistant manager and pay went down to $350 and lost all perks like selling spiffs. Also alot more stress involved. Different companies treat people / workers completely different. Now self employed and glad that I make more and work less. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-bump-should-i-ask-for-when-considering-a-jump-into-management/604900)._