Salary help please!!!
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- d_rek0
well, let me rephrase then... obviously, if you think you're worth 55k, it's certainly not out of the question to ask for 60k. It's a 5k difference which is not outrageous. Now if you were to set the bar at say a 10 or 15k difference, I could understand a company walk away from that.
I've only ever worked at one shop where the employer didn't know the current market value of their employee's... and they payed them like they didn't know. In the end they had employee's leave because it wasn't competitive, despite the work being done there.
Employers have to stay competitive or otherwise face employee defection and have to search very hard for new hires who will accept their low-balling.
So... I think you should aim high - but not outrageously so. If you want 55k, ask for 60k. If you want 60k - ask for 65k. It's always better to bargain down than to bargain up.