Do BAs get paid enough?

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Are you getting paid enough?

How do you stack up against the industry standard BA salaries below?

A little tip if you’re coming up short ⬇️ 

There’s a lot of factors that come into play when determining a BA salary - Industry, experience, system knowledge. The list goes on. Regardless of all that

Here’s how to get paid more
It’s not immediately obvious to decision makers that BAs are worth splashing out for (The vague job title does not help our cause)

Whether you’re trying to freshen up your CV, or angling for a raise at your next appraisal review. For crying out loud - Quantify your work!

The last thing you want to do in this situation is add more mystery to your role. And guess what the universal language is when it comes to budgets and decision making in big business? That’s right. Money.

Check out the difference below.

And don’t just rewrite your CV once and be done with it. You need to consistently make your value clear when reporting your work to ‘the business’.

At the very least you’ll give yourself job security. At most you’ll give yourself leverage for that raise!

‘The best BAs and programmers are the ones that can determine what just doesn’t matter. That’s where the real gains are made.'

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