How have you successfully negotiated a signing bonus?

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It’s usually negotiated if they won’t come to the party on salary. You agree on a lower $ amount with the sweetener of a one-off bonus. So you lose nothing if you leave or get a raise after 12 months.

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If you’re getting a bonus that you will miss out on my taking the job it’s pretty easy to turn that into a signing bonus.

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Instead of signing bonus which is taxed at roughly 50%. You can ask for it to be added on to your salary instead, which will get taxed at your tax bracket (roughly 20-35%).

You can save a chunk of money this way by not giving it straight to taxes, but obviously you do get paid slower since it’s part of salary and not a lump sum like signing bonus.

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Yes, I was leaving a few months before a big bonus. I negotiated a stock signing bonus that would vest the amount of my bonus in 6 months.

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Please tell us how

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Yes, many times

Agencies - just asked. One place I converted moving $$ into a bonus because I was local.

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I’ve only gotten money for moving. Never got a signing bonus

At every job, even as a junior.

They offered me the job a day after the interview, but I was still looking at other places. The next week, they offered me a signing bonus and I figured that plus the other benefits of the job were worth ending my hunt. No negotiation necessary for me.

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