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A comment on Ask HN: What is your strategy to handle recruiters asking for salary?.

Re:Ask HN: What is your strategy to handle recruiters asking... by Trias11 on Monday August 10, 2020 @08:16PM (#24115818)
Figure the highest number you can get paid for the job.

Add 10-15%

You may add word "negotiable"

If recruiter insists on knowing your current slary - lie with ~above number. It's not their business knowing.

Also:

Recruiter is never your friend (even is he is presenting himself this way). Everything you tell him, may and will be used by him to increase possibility of him getting commissions. Your career and compensation level is his lowest priority.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your strategy to handle recruiters asking... by muzani on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @01:32AM (#24117442)
> Your career and compensation level is his lowest priority.

What one recruiter (a good friend) told me is that I should just put a high number, because he charges commission based on the salary offered.

Also negotiable means they have to negotiate. Expect it to be 10% lower than the offered number. I've had someone negotiate as far as 33% when the offer was already very low but that kind of low balling destroys trust.

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