My career record (US Navy) for cost savings was something over $50MM. Every time I did something I had to do PowerPoints, present to Flag Officers, etc. Hell, once I almost got hugely punished because I didn't let my boss take the credit (he had no desire to because he had zero idea what it was I even did).
Note that some of that was as a Lean Six-Sigma Black Belt doing Enterprise projects (I hate every single bit of terminology in that entire godforsaken sentence), where it was literally my JOB to save the DOD as much money as possible with the least disruption possible. Those were the absolute worst years of my career. That period of my career was my reward for just going rogue and fixing things that saved millions.
I'll echo the last part of that post: Beware of doing good things at work; the reward is rarely compensation and is usually more work for the same pay.
My career record (US Navy) for cost savings was something over $50MM. Every time I did something I had to do PowerPoints, present to Flag Officers, etc. Hell, once I almost got hugely punished because I didn't let my boss take the credit (he had no desire to because he had zero idea what it was I even did).
Note that some of that was as a Lean Six-Sigma Black Belt doing Enterprise projects (I hate every single bit of terminology in that entire godforsaken sentence), where it was literally my JOB to save the DOD as much money as possible with the least disruption possible. Those were the absolute worst years of my career. That period of my career was my reward for just going rogue and fixing things that saved millions.
I'll echo the last part of that post: Beware of doing good things at work; the reward is rarely compensation and is usually more work for the same pay.