Comments on: How Do You Negotiate Salary?

By: norby

norby — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:58:19 +0000

this is helpful

By: Rudy

Rudy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:26:41 +0000

Interesting topic. It’s my experience that the employers ask for the current salary and offer a salary that’s based on the current salary. So it’s kind of tough world if you have been underpaid. My question is do you need to reveal if you have competing offers ? If you have 2 offers though 2 different recruiters, how much can you reveal ? The name of the firms that have offered ? The name of the other recruiter ? Would the 2 recruiter gang up against you if you do so ?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:24:10 +0000

Dividend Growth Investor, I agree 100%. My current company is light on perks, so I don’t think it will get much worse for me there!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:22:31 +0000

Mark, Cost of living adjustments are always an important consideration when relocating. The end sum is not always the most important factor. For me, I hope my employer moves right down the road – leaving cost of living out of the equation for me! Good luck on your relocation!

By: Mark @ TheLocoMono

Mark @ TheLocoMono — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:46:34 +0000

I will be relocating to another part of the country where the cost of living is lower therefore the rate of pay is slightly lower than where I am living now.

So it is an interesting post you bring up. I say that is because if I were to say I make 35K a year in one part of the country, another part of the country might say the same type of work is worth 28K a year, where is the “fine line” when it comes to salary negotiation?

Likewise for someone who moves from 100K area to 160K area. 60K may seem like an increase but is it really?

By: Dividend growth investor

Dividend growth investor — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:18:20 +0000

I think that salary is important but also negotiating things like health insurance, perks, stock options, educational reimbursements, and even a pension could be a nice think to have as opposed to merely being focused on salary negotiation.

By: Adfecto

Adfecto — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:23:05 +0000

Up to this point I have used competition to do all of my negotiating for me. When it was time to enter the job world I just took as many interviews as I could and casually dropped to the interviewers that I had a tight schedule because of other interviews. The offers came back and I took the one that best fit my life and money requirements. In all I had about 8 solid interviews and fielded 5 job offers. The offer I took had a career track built in to the program to move from intern to engineer to project manager so the salary grew as long as I maintained satisfactory performance. I know I had it pretty easy. A few years from now I’ll probably need to revisit this topic when things slow down and it is time to make a move into management, but for now things are going great.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:27:10 +0000

Ron, I have a feeling I will do some negotiating of my own in a few days – with my current company for our annual review, and possibly with another if I get offered the job I interviewed for. I will be sure to share what I learn.

By: Ron@TheWisdomJournal

Ron@TheWisdomJournal — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:04:39 +0000

Please share what he did! I’d love to read about it. Don’t divulge any personal information, of course, but I’d love to pick up some tips!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:19:09 +0000

Thanks for the tips, everyone. My friend was recently hired at the company I interviewed with, and he told me how he negotiated. I’m not 100% sure how I will go into it, but I have a rough outline in mind. Wish me luck!