Meggie Palmer

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Australian Finance Podcast · Negotiating a pay rise in 2022 with Meggie Palmer · 29 Nov 2021 podcast

Today's guest is Meggie Palmer, an Aussie expat and former foreign correspondent who launched a company called Pep Talk Her, which is on a mission to close the gender pay gap.

Meggie, thank you so much for joining me on the Australian Finance Podcast today.

And we're talking about a fantastic topic that I think has gone under the radar a little bit the last two years because we're all just being grateful to have a job during COVID, which is salary negotiation, especially as we head into a brand new year.

Now, you're really passionate about helping close that gender pay gap and helping professionals like many of our listeners with getting pay rises, promotions and finding financial security.

Before we dive into some of the more practical examples of actually getting a pay rise in your workplace, are you able to talk about some of the high level solutions to this pay gap problem, which we can contribute to?

Absolutely.

And I think that's a good thing to think about, especially as many of our listeners are investors and we are thinking about how we invest our time and money better.

And if we wanted to think about how we were going to start thinking about pay rises over the summer break, maybe in the lead up to 2022, what are some of the ways that our listeners could invest in their education, in their career and use their time better in this endeavour?

Because we can often get caught up in the trap that we just assume that they have seen all of the good things we've done over the year and that they should just know that we deserve more.

A little bit overwhelmed probably, depending on how much I was asking for.

And I kind of like to think of it like if a business was going to pay $10,000 for a service, they would want the whole case explained to them.

They would want to know what the positives are going to be for the business.

And so that's kind of like the way I like to think about going into a pay rise.

Are you presenting your case?

Have you got different tiers?

So have you prepared the yes, the no, and the maybe when they come back to you?

And one of the common phrases I hear around is ask for what you deserve, which I think is a little bit misleading because we don't always think we deserve the value that we should be asking for.

Or a lot of people do go into a salary negotiation asking for more, knowing they won't get it, but knowing they'll settle in the middle.

How do you approach that?

And how do you suggest listeners figure out what they should actually be asking for in their job and their industry?

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