Being headhunted for a Goldman Sachs Project Manager role. Not sure what to say for compensation expectations. Glassdoor range is 77-202k (avg 162k) but LinkedIn says 62-120k. What’s reasonable?

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It’d prob take me ~200k TC to get me to leave.

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