With that said, compensation has always been a little lower than the industry standard at WWT, and that has definitely been exacerbated in the last year and a half as inflation has spiked heavily. For years, a number of coworkers and I have seen other strong peers leave WWT almost solely because of mediocre compensation. Yet we have decided to stay because we love the people we work with, believe our leadership is for us, and have a lot of opportunity to shine at WWT.
But now, what has generally been a small sacrifice in pay over the years to work at a job one enjoys, has become a large gap in pay (especially considering many of our friends and coworkers have resigned their jobs in the last year and received major jumps in pay). In fact, I have been given promotions, or applied for and was hired into promotions roughly every other year I’ve been at WWT, and only 1 of those times would my raise in compensation have matched the increase in inflation we have seen over the last year. It saddens me to say it, because I really do like WWT, but it has gotten to the point that I can’t afford to continue to spend my prime sacrificing pay for culture, especially considering there are other companies (even in our very own industry) that have strong workplace cultures and strong compensation packages as well. And I’m not the only one in my position, or like positions who has started putting real effort into looking into outside opportunities.
