Your example numbers show how you lastly underestimate what tech jobs pay, and you are inviting an employer to low ball and you won't even know
No, that would be a decent salary for early to mid career tech workers outside the bay area.
Not everyone works at Google. The average salary of my team of about 25 software and Senior IT people is around $90k. Other compensation is about 40% of salary.
The numbers I used are salary only. Total comp negotiation is an entirely other animal.
The rationale (which I don't agree with) is "what if their range is a lot higher than your guess? Then you're losing out!"
Re:Salary Negotiation
by deanCommie on Saturday June 04, 2016 @10:34AM
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That's what things like Glassdoor are for
Take this as an example:
Say you currently make $80k and you want a 10% bump. So you're looking for $88k. Take that number and add 15%. Your ask is now around $100k. They may say something like "we actually start all new engineers off at a base salary of $85,000". This gives you a ton of power in negotiating just a $3k bump. If you had said you wanted $88k, that "starting salary" would have likely been $75k. Thus making it a pretty big leap to the $88k you wanted.