Salary Negotiation

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You are participating in a labor market, and a market is not a meritocracy. The only guaranteed way to find a market price is to find a buyer that is willing to actually buy at a given price.Thus, you don't need negotiation "skills". You need to interview at other companies, get offers, let all of them know what offers you got that you are ready to take. Nothing much more necessary. There are small negotiation tactics that may make small changes but those are not big - the larg

You don't have to negotiate explicitly.As a customer in retail you seldom negotiate explicitly with Burger or Walmart or Amazon directly, you just vote with your feet (and wallet).Investigate your potential employers before you take a job. If you like none of them, at least pick the lesser evil, or move into an adjacent industry. (Eg lots of game programmers are more than welcome in Internet or in finance etc.)

Why not? Make it part of salary negotiations.

Your argument does not apply that this would give potential employers too much leverage in salary negotiations or can you explain?

I'm failing to see the problem. They're negotiating. If you don't want to pay them max_salary, then you need to have a reason why not, and counter negotiate.

As a wise person once told me: people don't get paid what they are worth, they get paid what they can negotiate.

"You don't earn what you deserve. You earn what you negotiate."

Thought this was about you not negotiating against yourself every time an employer asks your current salary.

As my friend says about salary, it's only a negotiation if you're prepared to walk away.