I just stumbled to this thread yesterday and realized i made a big mistake. I need some advise.

A lil background of me is I am in E-commerce & Online Sales line with a basic and commission (sales target)

This new employer approached me and said I have this skills they needed. We had a couple of interview and in one of it I revealed my current and expected salary (verbally) to the new employer. And as expected the offer is way below my expected. I am talking only RM200 increment. I dont mind revealing my actual salary. I even put it in salary thread.

When I told them it is below my expected, they are now asking to see my pay slips as to better justify because my expected and the current salary has about like 30% in gap (gross pay + average monthly commission). I didnt provide anything to them yet. I have worked for 7 years + and my salary bracket seems to cant push to RM3K. I strongly believe that it will take a very long time to achieve my expected if I keep revealing my current salary to new employers.

What I want to know now is their budget for this position. They said if I wanted to get my expected salary I need to achieve 10x sales target to cover back the cost, etc etc. It is kind of stressing me out a little. They have been talking all the sales target I needed to achieve if I am to get this salary or that. None of my previous company and current did that. I understand that I need to cover back my package by contributing value to company but the way they presented it to me sounded as if I am a very high cost to them. Aside from sales side, I will be contributing in marketing and administration side too.

Any advise for this ? I am keen to know their salary range for this role and I dont think I will get a truthful answer from them since I revealed mine. Should I just move on and look for other jobs ?

Thank you for reading

This post has been edited by kawa_e: Jul 28 2019, 01:02 PM

I told the employer that the expected was too low, etc etc. Then what I didnt expect is that she was telling me now that I might not understand their vision and share the passion because I am more keen into monetary terms. Well she was the one who was very straight forward with the staff costing and everything 😅