<prompt> Human: I am looking for the average salary for my job so I can ask for a raise. I work for an inpatient psychiatric unit at a hospital. My job title is psychiatric technician manager. I am the supervisor for the 71 psych techs that work for the psych unit. I have a bachelors degree and about 6 years of experience in the mental health field and my salary is 61,000 a year. My job is very similar to a nurse clinical manager in a hospital in many ways, leaving out strictly nursing functions and replacing them with a much wider variety of tasks. I know everyone that has had this position, and the salary range for them was between 53k-59k. Over the years I have worked for this hospital, the role of the psych tech and the position of the psych tech manager has evolved. When I started the unit only employed around 25-30 psych techs when I was promoted to the manager position about 45 were employed. Psych techs had also begun to work in our hospitals emergency department in a semi-supervisory position similar to a charge nurse on a unit with the security department and the ED medical staff. Recently, the VPs of the hospital decided to merge another department of people with similar jobs under me and make them all psychiatric technicians. This brought the total to around 70 psych techs that I supervised. Additionally, I am in the process of coordinating the merger, which was like hiring 25 new psych techs over six weeks. I dont know how much detail about my job is relevant here I am happy to provide it for anyone that is willing and able to help but I am relatively sure that very few positions like mine exist in other hospitals, that are not held by RNs. I think I deserve a raise, because my boss added 25 new employees that I am responsible for, and tasked me with merging them into our department. This also meant I am a kind of member of the ED leadership team and am part of any issue that comes up with psychiatric patients in the emergency department which is tons of crazy shit happening all the time I am hesitant to ask for a raise because I have a bachelors degree in psych, so at 61k a year I am already topping out what I would expect to earn in human servicesmental health. Also, the psych techs at the hospital I work at make a lot more than other places pay range 17.50-22.50, typically starting pay for a psych tech in most places is 13-17hr so my salary seems relatively proportional. A nurse clinical manager on my unit has between 10-15 employees they supervise, is only responsible for one shift, and the pay range is 30.00-49.00hr. Does anyone know a similar position and what they make? or have any advice or thoughts on if I deserve a raise because of the added employees and responsibilities?One other important detail, I have two supervisors who work directly for me and also are considered the supervisor for a portion of the 70 techs. They are almost entirely on the floor leaders, they are counted as part of the floor staff, and the only admin functions they have been doing yearly evals on their 15 or so direct reports, the ability to approve overtime, and to access the timeclock system to put people in for time off, etc. I am not sure if having the supervisors would reduce the amount of salary increase I might deserve because they shared some responsibilitySorry if this is long, I have never asked for a raise before and I am not sure what details are relevant. Thanks in advance and if you think you can help and need more information please let me know.Assistant: If the nurse managers age making about 60 to 100kyear, you probably are getting paid fairly in my opinion. You want more money, get more education, thats how the industry works. Human: what industry? nursing or health care management? I have equivalent education if not more than the nurse managers come have associates degrees that is why I am asking the question because I think my position has evolved beyond being comparable to a nurse clinical manager  <response>: Healthcare. If you have the equivalent education of a nurse manager, go take the nclex and you can make a lot more money. I cant imagine how many techs youd have to manage to get paid what a nurse manager does. I am pretty much positive that your job has not evolved beyond that of a nurse clinical manager. 