Low balled for promotion raise

I work for a Canadian bank as a Quant Dev. I asked for a promotion at the beginning of last year, and my MD told me I had to work hard so I gave it my all. Come around December, I went from Associate to VP, but he really low balled me on pay (my base salary went up from 110k CAD to 120k CAD) - bonus was the same as last year, and he said that he knows this number is low but “he’ll try to get me closer to the total comp I want with bonus next year” which I found to be BS, because I asked for 150 base + a higher bonus.

Should I be upset about this? Or is this in line? Should I try to get an offer somewhere else and not even give them a heads up to try and match it?

He saw I was upset and told me “I wish I could do something about it, however, please let me know if you do end up getting an offer somewhere else so we can try and counter it”

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Wait wtf lol 

Is this base salary range normal for Canadian companies or for quant trading? Asso bases in the us is 175k at most places and VP is 250k. 

 

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