I am in the same boat!!!  At my 3 month review, my boss asked me how things were going. I told her I loved the people I work with, I like the job, but that the salary was a lot lower than I calculated since I estimated them taking out less for taxes. I cannot live on this income. I feel very underpaid. My boss doesn't seem to want to "go to bat" for me, even though she thinks it is underpaid too. She said she tried to get a higher rate before I was hired, and sort of suggested that if I needed more money, I might have to quite and go someplace else.
I don't want to leave, I just want the pay I deserve. So now I need to get up the courage to tell my boss I want to go to someone higher up. I am worried that she is going to be mad because I may be putting her in an akward position. Plus I am scared to go to the man in charge of determining my salary. It is so hard to do this. I am such a passive person.
Good Luck. You are in a better postion than I. You have been there longer than I've been here. But I do deserve more money. Okay. You go ask for that raise you deserve. When I first approached my manager about it, I was scared too, but it went okay. She didn't give me what I wanted to hear, but she wasn't offended either.
Let us know how you did it and how it went!
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~ Beth
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