A recruiter reached out to me a few weeks ago about a role that's been open for a while. They quoted $75k, but I told her I need $90k. She liked my profile and managed to get the team to bump the range to $83k before we even started. I just finished the final round after 3 weeks of interviews. If I get the offer, is it greedy to push for $86k-$88k? I feel like if they found $8k, they can find another $3k.

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Unless those interviews revealed more to the job scope, I’m not sure it would be wise to push for more. Starting at 90k and then agreeing with 83k was the time to say something else.

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It's not a question of looking greedy, it's a matter of being serious. From what you're saying you went through a lengthy string of interviews, and you apparently want the job. If you want to risk it over three grand at this point it may look odd to a potential employer. Companies will rescind offers if someone comes off as unserious, so that's the real concern.

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I’m sure they can find another 3k, but agree with C1. If it mattered that much, I think you should’ve asked for 86 before the lengthy run. Just my opinion tho

Yea, I agree with all of these comments as well. I think it would be a bad look to ask for the 3k now. I would accept the offer you have in front of you.

If you already went through the salary discussion because you weren’t happy with 75 and they raised to 83 and you said ok and then everyone thought that was acceptable and moved forward with the process. If I were the employer and you then came back and asked for more again I would be annoyed and would likely not make an official offer. At that point it wouldn’t be about the 3k but how you handled the situation.

This seems similar to having 2 offers and going back and forth between the companies trying to have them continuously raise the offers. Doing it once isn’t a big deal but if you go back and forth more then once the companies are likely going to get annoyed and move on.

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