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Re:Salary Negotiation by ryanSrich on Friday June 03, 2016 @04:12PM (#11832897)
I honestly never understood the notion of not naming a number first (that is if you know what you're worth). Take the number you want to make, add 15%, and they'll likely negotiate down to the actual number you want. It's really not that hard.

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.

Re:Salary Negotiation by tamana on Friday June 03, 2016 @11:10PM (#11834741)
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
Re:Salary Negotiation by sciurus on Saturday June 04, 2016 @09:11AM (#11836189)
No, that would be a decent salary for early to mid career tech workers outside the bay area.
Re:Salary Negotiation by Spooky23 on Sunday June 05, 2016 @10:32AM (#11841149)
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.
Re:Salary Negotiation by ryanSrich on Saturday June 04, 2016 @12:12PM (#11836807)
The numbers I used are salary only. Total comp negotiation is an entirely other animal.
Re:Salary Negotiation by vehementi on Friday June 03, 2016 @06:16PM (#11833671)
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 (#11836470)
That's what things like Glassdoor are for
Re:Salary Negotiation by what_ever on Saturday June 04, 2016 @03:17PM (#11837571)
Glassdoor data is often not good indicator as you can filter by only recent reports. So some numbers can be older than 5 years.