How does salary negotiations usually work in this case (employee, jobs, company)

[ogplife]

I have a good friend that has 2 jobs. One as a social worker (39,000) yearly and another one as a case manager (20,000) yearly. Basically doing the same job just different titles. She is negotiating her salary to become a social worker with an upper echelon social work agency. They are trying to negotiate with her on the basis of her full time salary only. Is this fair? Shouldn't both jobs be counted in the salary negotiations. While it is obviously more efficient to be paid 50,000 for 40 hours than 59,000 for 60 hours everyone can't necessarily make or afford that lifestyle adjustment and a decent second job is not always guaranteed. Is this company's style of negotiating consistent with negotiating with an employee with 2 jobs or are they attempting to short change her?

[maf763]

To clarify, the current social worker job is full-time (40 hours) and the case manager job is part-time (20 hours)?

If she's working 40 hours for a new agency, they'll pay her for 40 hours, not the 60 she may be working now. If they are offering $50K for 40 hours, that's a substantial increase. The new agency is under no obligation to pay her for lost wages from a 2nd job. They are only negotiating for the one job she will do for them.

[chet everett]

I am mostly with maf763. The exception would be if the new firm is demanding/requesting that she ONLY work for them. If that exclusive use of her talents is required because she may be expected to work more than 40 hrs then she ought to get the details on that and have some understanding of the upside/downside in terms of total pay and total time required. In my experience more upper level positions do require some overtime, but few have 20 additional hours each and every week unless the pay is really for a very demanding postion...

[ogplife]

Originally Posted by chet everett

I am mostly with maf763. The exception would be if the new firm is demanding/requesting that she ONLY work for them. If that exclusive use of her talents is required because she may be expected to work more than 40 hrs then she ought to get the details on that and have some understanding of the upside/downside in terms of total pay and total time required. In my experience more upper level positions do require some overtime, but few have 20 additional hours each and every week unless the pay is really for a very demanding postion...

The agency is not requesting she only work for them, but she would have to move from the area she is at, thus forcing resignation from her PT job. Thanks for the input from both of you.