<prompt> Human: The company I work for has me completing a lot of projects automating manual tasks in Python. Currently we track the of employee hours saved per month for each of these projects. I want to ask for a rather large 40 raise during my next review because of these projects They were not my primary job duty, but have become so. I dont know the -actual- wages of the people who are using these programs, but i imagine the average is 25hr. So far I have Automated 175 hoursmonthestimated by the managers, not me and have another 250 hoursmonth of projects in my to-do list. When negotiating a raise I want to say that Im saving the company 251.5benefitstaxesetc17212 77,400 annually, which is significantly more than my own salary. I still complete my -actual- job duties on top of this.Am I thinking about this the right way, or are there other things I need to consider? Has anyone been in a similar situation? How did you proceed?Assistant: If your primary role of writing python then youre a programmer or software engineer now and should be paid a market rate for those skills in your area. Human: My Primary role is AnalyticsStatistics, this was just something they found out i could do, and when i burn through my project list i wont be doing it any more. so i wouldnt say im a software engineer.Assistant: Why would they give you a permanent raise when you wont be adding that value permanently? Human: The automation is permanent, it saves all of those hours -every- month.  <response>: Im not sure you should try to sell it that way. I think you can probably justify a permanent raise because new features, bug fixes, maintenance will likely continue to be part of your responsibility going forward. Its very rare for any bit of code to get written and never get touched again. 