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Make More Money As An Employee

Name: Make More Money As An Employee
Uploaded: 2024-12-01T02:30:38+00:00
Duration: 28 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this brief monologue, Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP advises employees to increase their earnings potential by requesting a lower base salary in exchange for…

1 Dec 2024 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP advises employees to increase their earnings potential by requesting a lower base salary in exchange for greater participation in the company's upside. The speaker argues that employees who can directly link their work to company revenue can shift compensation risk from the business owner to themselves, thereby earning a larger share of future profits. The core premise is that taking on more risk justifies higher reward, so confident employees should negotiate a smaller guaranteed salary to capture more upside.

One of the easiest ways to make more money as an employee is go to your employer and ask for less money. Here's how it works. Anybody who can directly tie what they do to what a company makes can then say, hey, instead of giving me this base, I'd like a much smaller base so I can have more participation in the upside. And so what you're actually doing is shifting the risk from the business owner to you. And whenever you take on more risk, you will be entitled to more reward. And so if you know you're good at what you do, ask to get paid less.