Salary VS Title? What is more important to you?

[sandsthetime]

Originally Posted by adjusterjack

Money, hands down.

Never work for promises, titles, "potential" or any other BS that the corpies come up with.

Money talks and nobody walks.

Yup, money comes first. And even if my title doesn't sound as impressive as it should, I can always "dress up" and over-exaggerate my job duties to make it sound more important than what it really is.

[Lablitz]

We all compare ourselves to our colleagues. So if 5 people are on the same team, everyone is called 'Senior Engineer'

but I'm are called 'Junior Engineer'. I would not be happy. even if we all got paid the same.

[Left-handed]

Titles are somewhat meaningless, because they're not fluid across employers. The title of my current position mostly likely does not exist anywhere else in the entire country, that's how proprietary to my employer it is. All that I generally want out of my title is to accurately convey the type of work I do. If I'm an analyst or manager, then let my title reflect that. In most cases, I slightly modify (i.e. generalize) my titles on my resume to properly reflect the work I've done that will convey meaning to someone who doesn't really understand what an "Associate-Bolt Screw Intermediary LII" is. Yeah, I made that title up, but it illustrates how very specific some companies get with their job titles. Maybe I'd change it to "Bolt Screwer Tech - Level II", or something a little more generalized that any other company in the bolt screwing industry might understand better.

Since I consider job titles only mildly important and highly flexible, I consider the salary to be of the utmost importance in my job role.

[Rowan123]

Titles never mattered to me - only the salary.

[RubyDee]

Salary

[emcee squared]

Salary without a doubt. My job transitions to other companies, but my title is some made up word jargon.