Salary/Job Title question

[bpastermack]

This is not directly an excel question, so I wasn't sure where to put it, but I am trying to research job titles and such in order to get a good salary range in order to negotiate my salary with my company, and no generic job title seems to cover it? I was hoping someone here could give me some advice or point me ion the right direction. I was making 50,000 plus bonus at my last job as a senior financial analyst, but got laid off. I had 2 years experience as a financial analyst and was a business owner prior to that. Prior to that I worked at a Hedge Fund. I found a job back in the investment field as a pricing specialist (A fancy way of saying I value securities at the end of each day in Mutual Funds and ETF's) But it turns out most of the pricing is done in a database, and most of my job consists of scrubbing that database and I immediately saw a need and started learning how to write macro code. Now I developed a bunch of macro codes that allow me to do twice as much work as some of the people in that office and am starting to do the same in my spare time to make the other employees more productive in their own jobs. I have even developed code that runs in the morning before I get into the office, and hope to help others do the same. I am developing processes that could end up saving the company lots of time and money.

I thought they recognized my value when they decided to take me on with a salaried position, but I waited 2 months and finally got the grand offer of 35K!! I nearly dropped the phone. It was much less than the hourly pay I was getting at $21/hour. She said I could counter the offer, but I just told her it wasn't worth countering and she needed to come up with an offer that made some logical sense and get back to me. I'm hoping it was just some sort of mistake, since it is a big company and maybe she just got mixed up.

But even though the job title for the new salary position is Senior Data Administrator it seems most job titles like that are software developers, not excel guys. I don't really want to overstate my value for the position. Is it more like a data analyst job? I'm not really analyzing any of the data except in rare cases when I have to figure out how to value obscure securities. I can't really figure out how to show them something definitive that shows my value in black and white at least a little bit. I personally think I'm worth about 50K a year, and turned down interviews for jobs that would have paid $25 an hour because I thought this job was going somewhere with a salary on the way.