Question with pay
Kinda long and all over here, so bear with me…
I have my 2nd review coming up soon. Currently I don’t feel like I’m making enough. For some background, I have 1 year manual experience, then went to a CNC grind shop for 5 years that primarily was toolmaking, now this’ll be my 2nd year in a CNC machine shop. So overall machining I have 8 years experience. I started classes last year for an apprenticeship program, so this is my 2nd year. My current pay is just below $21/hr. For what I’m doing as an individual, I feel I’m underpaid, but I’m not entirely sure if it’s normal wage, or if I should be asking for more. I’m basically the supervisor on my shift, the only thing missing is the title. Fixing stuff from other shifts, reworking hundreds of parts in orders that nobody else can get (both because they don’t feel like it, or just don’t know how), training others, will to learn, and always looking to learn more, etc, I even know what everybody’s doing on my shift, and can help others… and I was the only person on my shift who had access to get tooling until I told management we need a 2nd in case I’m not there….anyways… with my review coming up, I’m not sure what I should ask for, my first review/raise (70 cents) left a sour taste in my mouth with the excuse of sending me to school, which seeing the bills for each semester, really isn’t much, it’s $400-800 for each course taken, and now that my cars paid off, I can manage that myself…
Question is, with my experience and what I do individually, what should I be making… I’m trying to use sites like Glassdoor, zip recruiter, etc. to find what I should be worth, but it’s ranging me from $18-$30 in my area, so I’m not entirely sure…