Agent on Demand – Negotiate Your Dream Job Offer

Post by samzeisler » Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 4:28 PM UTC

rahimnathwani wrote: post #10

samzeisler wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I don't have a hard statistic/number for you (we are working on putting those numbers together now) our most recent client got over a 100% increase over the initial offer. We also had a client that got so much more than they were initially offered that their future boss also got a raise because the company had to rethink the pay structure of the entire division.

I understand if it's hard to calculate the median. But what's the minimum increase? Some of the companies you mention try hard to make the initial offer compelling/fair (e.g. slightly above max of {current compensation, competing offer, target compensation for level}), so I'd assume that sometimes they simply won't budge beyond that, as they feel that they've taken into account all relevant info before making the off…