3 Ways To Get Paid More As An Employee
In this concise instructional video, Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP, outlines three proactive strategies employees can use to increase their compensation. First, she advises employees to study their direct supervisor’s job description and begin handling 20‑30% of those duties, demonstrating readiness for higher responsibility and positioning themselves for promotion. Second, she recommends identifying cost‑saving opportunities—such as canceling unused subscriptions or renegotiating vendor contracts—quantifying the annual savings, and presenting these results to senior management. Third, she suggests creating a new revenue‑generating product or service for the company, then proposing to receive a percentage (e.g., 20‑30%) of the incremental profit as compensation for originating the initiative. The overall message is to create measurable value for the employer and leverage that value in compensation negotiations.
