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Can I negotiate a cut of cloud savings into my yearly salary?

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Entry-Level Software Engineer at Unemployed

Hi Tarodactyls! It's been a while since I posted here. Last time I posted, I just started a contract job months after being laid off, and was looking for advice. Last week, my manager and I had a talk where he said everyone is impressed with what I can do, and wants to hire me full time. Nothing's set in stone yet, so I have to keep the pedal to the metal. In the meantime, I have a question for when negotiating comes around...

An engineer friend and I were talking about how we’d like to get a 2% cut of all the money we save for a company using AWS. I thought that’d be a really good deal. I think I found AWS service that can save the company a bunch of both time and money. And since the company is growing and will be making more money, there’ll be a lot of ways for me to grow in AWS and help them save more money. Imagine getting a small cut of six figures of what they save from what you implemented once a year, just because you implemented it? Maybe I was just thinking very excitedly, but have you ever heard of something like this being offered in a negotiation? If so, how would I best be able to negotiate something like that into a deal?

Since it's almost time for me to get a full time job, I'm gonna have to peep that negotiation course from Taro. I have a feeling someone will link it in the comments. Thanks, everybody!

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