I'm not sure that's exactly apples to apples, as there are still 7 of us here, so at best it'd be their salary divided by 7. That may be a decent way to look at it though, however, I haven't personally taken on an equal amount of their projects, but this can factor in.

I know the last departure put a fire under them to hire soon, but I'm sure that seat is scalding now.

Awesome, I will do that. Sadly a lot of my closest coworkers are the ones leaving, but I have some others that are good people that I can have these discussions with. My best friend is also in an adjacent industry, so I'm going to pick his brain for information.

Honestly, I'm kind of closest with the people above me at this point, so I probably need to start thinking like them in some ways too. That also bodes well for my value and their desire to keep me around. I've only heard positive things from higher ups when things are discussed. I'm definitely trying to keep my sporits up about all this work by looking at it as an opportunity to show off within this company.

I have not received any raises since these changes, and I think this discussion is to remedy that. I can directly quantify the projects that I took over from others, but need to look back to see what a "normal" workload would have been, as it fluctuates by project size and timeline. We are also entering a busy year, that is hard to factor in. Additionally, I did just receive my license, so it is hard to judge what my baseline workload was before to what it is expected to be now. I'll look into all these factors, and try to come up with a % more work that I am doing to look for.

Would it be a bad idea to discuss with some co-workers that I trust what kind of baseline to think about and what that compensation would be?