This is a little OT but I believe this is the best place to ask this question. I have been in system integration for over 16 years, I spent 10 years with one integrator and 6 with my current integrator. Over the past 6 years, my previous clients have come to me to give them help with stuff I worked on personally with them at my last company and also doing new projects with them. I am the only one at my current company doing these projects and it seems like I am always squeezing them in between the projects I was hired to do here. I have asked numerous times about doing some type of bonus or profit sharing with my bosses but they always have pushed it off and have never come through with a plan. At the current moment, it is approaching 150k in labor they have billed for my time. With materials, I am well over 375k of total project work that I have brought here. So by no means enough to go out on my own for.
I know they give me a steady job and they provide me with benefits as well and I know not all of the 150k in labor is "profit" but the majority of it is or at least has helped pay my salary over the last 6 years. We are all here because we enjoy what we do, but also don't want to get taken advantage of. If there is something I can get extra out of it to help get my kids through college etc... I want that money, this is a business in the end.
So is it being greedy to force them to start profit sharing or giving me a percentage of the work I have brought? If so what would a good percentage be that would be reasonable starting place? I plan to stay here long term, no reason to leave, but I may not want to continue helping my clients as it does hamper getting the workload they already have for me done.
I know they give me a steady job and they provide me with benefits as well and I know not all of the 150k in labor is "profit" but the majority of it is or at least has helped pay my salary over the last 6 years. We are all here because we enjoy what we do, but also don't want to get taken advantage of. If there is something I can get extra out of it to help get my kids through college etc... I want that money, this is a business in the end.
So is it being greedy to force them to start profit sharing or giving me a percentage of the work I have brought? If so what would a good percentage be that would be reasonable starting place? I plan to stay here long term, no reason to leave, but I may not want to continue helping my clients as it does hamper getting the workload they already have for me done.