<prompt> Human: Long story short, I have been approached by my director for a promotion to supervisor, in which I would have 10 full time employees under me. In addition to my new responsibilities, I will have to continue doing my current technical job and all the responsibilities associated with it because management does not want to backfill my position. I have been offered a 2 increase in pay for this promotion.Personally, I do not feel the additional work and responsibility is worth only a 2 increase to my salary. I would be interested in and happy to take the promotion and am stating my case for better compensation before I decide; however, I do not see the current offer as a fair deal. I would be doing a job worth between 60-80k plus benefits on the open market in addition to what I am already doing, while only being compensated a minute fraction of that.If my negotiations fail, I do not think I would want to trouble myself with all the extra work for so little extra pay. How can I tactfully decline this promotion? I really like my job, am treated well here, and do not plan on leaving regardless of the outcome of this situation. As such, I do not want to jeapordize my current job in turning this down. All responses are greatly appreciated, thank you!Edit: This garnered far more comments than I expected. I do not have time to respond to every single one but I want you all to know I have read every single comment and continue to read the new ones, and appreciate you all taking your time to share your knowledge, experiences and opinions. Ill post an update once everything is resolved so anyone who is interested can find out the outcome. As one comment said, the consensus seems to be f you, pay me. I think Ill go with a more tactful version of that and see where it goes.Assistant: 2 for 10 employees and retaining current duties? No thank you. Maybe they are expecting you to counter offer. I wouldnt settle for anything less than 10 if I am truly to assume managerial duties. Side note, from a personal view...if my coworker was in a spot to receive this position and only received that little of a raise to be in charge of me, it would tell me that the company doesnt truly respect his worth and subconsciously, that will be apparent from his subordinates later on.Human: Thanks for the reply. To be fair, my director agrees with me that Im being lowballed and is attempting to get HR to get me a better offer. I would have a rather unique position since people with my job dont usually double as a supervisormanager, so they do not know how to get appropriate market compensation info for the combined role. Im really hoping they figure it out, we have been without a true supervisor for a while and I think I could help get my department back on track.Regardless, any tips on how to turn this down without making upper management angry? I dont want to jeopardize my current job if this doesnt work out.Assistant: any tips on how to turn this downYou said it yourself: I really like my job, am treated well here, and do not plan on leavingBut then add onto that sentence:...but I dont feel that the promotion would be worth it to me for a 2 raise. There is a lot more risk and responsibilities for me that I dont want to take on unless I am being compensated appropriately for it.A promotion - a true promotion - comes with an industry standard of 10-15 sometimes more. You also said, I think I could help get my department back on track. Use this in your follow up conversation. Let them know what you think you could do to make the team better and that youre willing to do that if they put a good offer on the table. Honestly, it sounds like your department may need to make a new role for it.Human: They probably should make a new role, but they wont. I know what I would be getting myself into, hence balking at that low number.Assistant: Lol. See if you can sneak in a question about if its only an amount of work worth a 2 raise, why wont your manager do it?Human: Its not my director, she agrees its a low number. The issue is HR has strict rules about promotions and how the associated raises are handled. Since my job title would extremely rare my technical role plus supervisor duties, theres almost zero market data out there to establish an appropriate compensation range. I pretty much have to argue with HR that my job cannot fall into their standard formula of X promotion warrants Y raise because not all the factors in that equation can be accounted for.The situation is more complicated than I laid out, I just attempted to be brief to prevent boring people with all the extensive details surrounding the situation.  <response>: It sounds like its going to be on your director to either find someone guillible enough on your team to take on the extra work, or try to hire in a no-name and hope they can pull it through. Or, they change the definition to make it more in line with HR with the understanding that youll do other stuff too. Or get HR in line. Honestly, its out of your hands. You could take the role and think about moving out of your company since youre getting supervisor experience but that doesnt sound like a goal.. 