IT Salary Negotiation Tactics
IT salary negotiation tactics: market research sources, first number anchoring, total compensation negotiation, new job offers, annual raises, and BATNA...
The exact change
Most IT salary negotiations have more room than the first offer suggests; Levels.fyi data shows that first offers are accepted unchanged by 40-60% of candidates, leaving significant compensation on the table.
Most IT salary negotiations have more room than the first offer suggests, and a substantial share of candidates accept first offers unchanged, leaving significant compensation on the table.
Suggested change
Softened the misattributed fabricated statistic to a qualitative statement.
Why this is better
Applied the previously-described fix to the live article: softened a statistic misattributed to Levels.fyi (a self-reported compensation database, not a research firm publishing acceptance-rate studies) to a qualitative statement.
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