<prompt> Human: I was recently offered a promotion into a position that will occur over the next 2-3 years. When my boss retires there will be some movement and I was approached about filling any of voids that will occur, and of course I am all for it and agreed. He mentioned a ballpark salary, but I dont expect that until I am in the role. Moving forward, my current position is paying 20k elsewhere, and I have a friend pressing me to apply to her company. At the end of the day I dont want to work for the company she works for, and on top of that the position I will be transitioning into with my current company is just about as awesome as I could want at this point. Her company does not offer anything like this division that I will be transitioning to. So, moving forward, how do I approach my company about this salary difference? I dont want to leave and if I give an ultimatum I know thats not getting me anywhere so I am not even considering it. I have been with this company for a year, so I couldnt be happier given the opportunity that they are offering me albeit in 2-3 years, but things take time. I pushed for a title changed during my KPI in April, but was told outright I havent been here long enough. So if I couldnt get the title how in the hell can I expect a 20k increase...SO...I havent been here long enough for a title change, but another company is willing to pay me 20k more per year to do the SAME work, different industry and a 15k signing bonus. I would think that my company should be receptive to that salary increase if they knew that was whats being offered elsewhere, but I dont want to go and applyget an offer letter and drop that on my boss. If I get the same salary that would make the next 2-3 years more bearable while grinding out the trainingschooling. Not to mention ease of mind knowing I can be getting paid a lot more elsewhere in the same position.tl;dr -- How do I approach my company for that extra 20k per year without pissing anyone off or risking my confirmed promotion?Thanks!  <response>: You dont, unless you are willing to and want to move to that other company that pays more, you dont say anything.If this were the same company but a different location, then sure, it would be worth bringing up, but its pretty pointless to bring it up unless you are willing to switch to the other company AND your own company sees you as valuable enough to pay you that much more. 