Thought I'd share my experience for those seeking additional motivation to leave:
I left xom a month ago for a job paying 50% more, different industry - plus a bonus on top.
3 YOE non-engineer, ranked E last two years.
Honestly, I was shocked to know exxon underpaid me that bad. I hope everyone can get paid their true worth.
Hey @3mrx+1iPx8l6e , have you checked at consulting or banks? All those folks are looking for o&g senior engineers looking to start/grow their CCU/Low Carbon teams. Regardless if you're in LCS or not, they're looking for the o&g domain knowledge engineers like you have and will pay top dollar for it.
Wish you the best of luck.
Engineer with 10+ years. Making over $230k. Looking at some options and interviewing but nooone can match or exceed my salary. Not sure where all these big increases are coming from but would like to know.
Lol the loyalists here are just salty they can't believe their beloved Exxon would pay them below average. I did not move to tech, I moved to consulting and you're right it was not a 50% raise, it's an 70% raise once I factor the lower end of the bonus range.
Keep #Winning!
@2fiq Because they can’t do any better and they like making-up stories.
Why would they lie?
EM is a mediocre company at this point and is rapidly circling the drain. Many employees can do better and many former employees have done better. You might not want to face that fact, but that doesn't change reality.
A lot of dreamers on this thread.
I see the “went to tech” trope is back too.
You didn’t go to tech, and you didn’t get a 50%, 60%, or 100% pay increase. The tech sector is laying off employees, and world-class software/A.I. engineers are scrambling to protect their jobs.
You are not a world-renowned expert in artificial intelligence with a PhD from Stanford, so “tech” didn’t give you a 100% pay increase to come on board. Keep repeating it if doing so makes you feel better about being stuck at Exxon.
Left for 60% increase - non engineer, went to tech
I left for 66%.
Would have left Exxon even for 0% increase.
Please be a good human being and share part of the increase with your previous closest co-workers. Use Zelle.
@ale Apparently you haven’t interviewed for a while.
What you make and your salary expectations are the first things corporate recruiters ask about in the initial screening. It’s up there with “why are you seeking new opportunities”.
@xiy That hasn’t been my experience.
O&G is ten years behind the technology curve. The people who leave O&G always have to play catch-up.
As for management, they’re even less adaptable, because they carry the dysfunctional, reactionary O&G culture with them. Many O&G managers also lack proper qualifications.
Sorry, but very little is transferable, and as a result not marketable.
@fcf. What you say is total horsesh1t. Every skill at EM is transferable to other industries except Drilling, Geoscience and similar. The issue is if EM people had actually applied themselves enough to master a skill or hop skipped and jumped through assignments assuming skill mastery wasn't important, just ranking well.
Nobody asks what you're currently making to justify your offer. In some states that's even illegal. It's not 1980. If you're in IT with a specialized skill 100% salary increase is not at all impossible. Bottom line know your worth and know where your skillsets rank.
@ove Still BS.
I know a lot of you have this fantasy of being sought after commodities who can draw huge salaries in any market, but the reality is that few O&G skills are transferable outside the industry, and if you didn’t leave O&G, you didn’t get a 50% pay increase.
Even if someone does leave, it’s highly doubtful that a 50% pay increase would happen. No HR department is putting $50k on top of every $100k someone made previously.
Post what you want, but don’t expect anyone to believe it.
OP here. If you truly want stay blindly loyal to Exxon and believe you're getting top dollar, go ahead be my guest, that's less competition for me. Lol
I got a 103% raise when I left exxon and joined Amazon.
Honestly, I was shocked to know exxon underpaid me that bad. I hope everyone can get paid their true worth.
Troll
“Left for a 50% increase”
Complete BS.