How to gauge salary uplift for small promotion?

Sandtree

You get promotions by staying with a company and you get better money by changing companies.

Looking at job boards etc to see what others are offering for people with the same experience and skills as you have; that will obviously give you a baseline of what others would pay you but for promotions then more look at what you are currently getting and less what you'll get from the promotion.

Fighter1986

You can take the post for the experience, and with 12 months managerial / supervisory experience in hand, keep your ear to the ground about better opportunities elsewhere. 

If a better offer comes up (and I mean a formal job offer, after you've successfully interviewed elsewhere), have an open and honest discussion with your boss about it.

Irrespective of the outcome of this conversation, which is likely to be 18 months from now, you'll emerge a winner. 

getmore4less

Naf said:

getmore4less said:

What sector/product type?  be as vague as you need to be

Some pay good, some never will, some just what they think they can get away with 
if the later this is the time to address any imbalance

How developed are the QA processes, are you well automated or still mainly hands on

Any innovation going on on the QA side of things.

Do you have any idea what the development people are getting?
How good are they,  are the deliveries decent or a mess that need fixing? 

Oh boy... haha.

We're in the gaming industry, and the processes are pretty all over the place across the board. We are in the process of improving and getting a handle on that better, which I guess is part of the reason for the role.

I should probably ask one of the devs, that's a good point.

What people pool does the company use to pull in QA resources?
if there is significant focus on game players and the process on  game playing that may attract people that are less focused on pay over career people..

OK down south/London our grad entry level QA trainees were starting on £20-25k (10 years ago) developing product and testing infrastructure most would move on into product development.

As others have said promotion is easy getting more pay often needs moving or good negotiation at critical times, this is one of them, you want you contribution to be recognised and rewarded by more than a new title.