<prompt> Human: I am a 23 year old who has been working as a manager in a manufacturing environment for about a year now. Recently, my boss received a promotion and I have worked my tail off for the past month or so in relief while their position was being filled. Recently, my hard work has been noticed, and I have been offered my boss old position a few days ago. That being said, the increase in salary was less than I was expecting, 8, when I was looking to be in the 12-15 range. Being young, this is my first opportunity to take a job with a very large increase in responsibilityaccountability, and I want to make sure Im getting a fair increase in salarybenefits for all the extra effort I am going to have to put into at work.Some more info: the position is a department head of a production facility that is 300 people large, and would routinely make decisions that would affect the outflow of goods for the entire plant. I am worried my lack of experience means I dont have enough to leverage the next youngest department head is approx. 10 years my senior. Currently making 72k, new increase to about 78k with no vacation increase, etc. My location has struggled to fill the position hence me working the department alone for 1month and I feel like I could use that to my advantage. I have been out of college for two years and have been in this professional environment the entire time. Assistant: Its not your age or lack of experience but how you present yourself.I would counter the 8 and ask for 15. Do your research. Cite whats a comparable salary range for the position. Show how youve been handling the department alone for the past month with very little to no direction...pretty much self-starter...not one to just twiddle their thumbs and scroll through Facebook when they think no ones watching.Its worth the extra few thousand for someone who already knows the system, needs little to no training and not only that, but have proven themselves by taking on roles outside their job description with no extra pay...its due.Human: What if I added this: I started at our corporate office training for the role for a year. I was then placed into my current role and received a 10 raise. Should I be happy with another raise, 8, as I have literally received them in consecutive years and be happy with that? Obviously, it is my duty to get as much money as possible for my life, as it is my works duty to get me for as cheap as possible. But I dont want to keep pushing too far without the guns to back it up, so to speak. Like I said, this is my first promotion where I can seriously make some waves at a location, but I will be on the hook for a lot of the things that go wrong as well. I want to make sure its worth the extra stress.  <response>: You have no experience 1 year is basically zero yet promoted with an 8 raise? You should be smiling ear to ear. - 10 years in chemical manufacturing 