<prompt> Human: Im at my first big boy job out of college and Ive been here for almost 2 years now. Im a government contractor and my job requires 10-15 of travel for our contracts. Halfway through 2015 and through all of 2016, I exceeded my travel requirement by a huge margin. I was always willing and ready to go at a moments notice when they needed me, wherever they needed me to go and even stepped up to take on another contract that no one else wanted to do.Now though, the travel isnt getting to be worth it. I receive per diem for every trip I go on but even thats not much anymore. Other people in my office have decided they arent going to travel at all and with other people quitting, a lot of travel has fallen, and is going to fall, on me in the future. Ive spent at least 2, almost 3 months on the road and not at home because of this job. Im also the only person who has consistently traveled to the Middle East this past year for our company. Theyve now started to want to send 2 people and had an incredibly hard time finding someone to go with me one time, much less continue in the future.Ive become kind of specialized and if I got a new job, this company would be kind of screwed without me since they have no one else who has the experience I do and can travel like I do. The only other people who have the experience are the project manager and he has so many balls in the air that he cant be gone for more than a day and a supervisor who has flat out said that she is not traveling anymore. The only other person who travels as much as I do, does it because he trains people on the use of their equipment. He doesnt go and do repairs or calibrations, no one does except for me now.I want to keep traveling but its not financially worth it anymore, how do I convey this to my manager and ask for a raise without giving an ultimatum? He does not respond well to ultimatums, other people have tried. He has also called us drones and butts in seats. Ive been sending out applications to find a new job and have a line on a new one opening up in a few months. I dont want to leave but I will if I have too.TL;DR I travel excessively for my job and I want to convey that in a way that will give me decent raise.EDIT: I work for a company in Lexington, KY. We work with the National Guard Civil Support Teams wikipedia explanation: I travel almost every other week to whatever state I need to go to that week. Im making 35,000 and would like to be bumped up to at least the salary level of 48,000 for when that law passes.EDIT 2: Well, I finally got my meeting set up with my boss. This Friday. Now its time to prepare.Assistant: Had a friend in a similar situation and he basically said he wanted to double his hourly rate or he was gone. They said they couldnt and offered around 15 and asked him to stay to finish out his project. He already had interest from other companies and he countered with he will finish out his project train a replacement in the mean time but for what he was originally asking. They agreed and he finished his project while training his replacement. They all left on good terms and everyone was content. Moral of the story is you need to decide what you want to do and ask. Be prepared to walk away or at least know what you will do if they counter offer. Human: I would like to get to the salary level for whenever that law passes but that would be a huge increase from what Im making now. It would be a 35 increase in salary.  <response>: Just to let you know, a District Judge in Texas filed an injunction against the salary increase and it is currently in limbo waiting for the president to appeal the injunction and some other things I dont understand. That appeal has not been done yet. Trump has no intention of appealing that injunction and he takes office in 3 days. Most likely it will just fade away and never happen. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news because it effects me to. Just wanted to give you the information you deserve because the media has 100 failed to cover it at all. 