I accidentally offered too low of a range when I was offered a new position and of course the formal job offer came back at the low number. As soon as it came out of my mouth I regretted it but here we are now. Do I have any chance to negotiate or will I look like a jerk because I gave the number in the first place? If so, what should I say?

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Tough one. Assuming you don’t need to leave your current job for any reason, I suppose you could reopen negotiations by saying something like “I’ve done more research on the median salary for the role and my added value. After doing so, id like receive an annual salary of XX.” Then you say a bit about how you’ve enjoyed speaking with everyone and the role feels like a great fit.

Obviously it’s not an ideal stream of conversation but I guess the worst you could get is a decline. But usually an employer knows they’re lowballing you, and it’s not personal. They expect it

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I had a recruiter reach out to me, gave them a range, didn’t hear anything for about a month and in the meanwhile my agency at the time gave me a promotion, so when the recruiter got back in touch I told them and they upped their offer accordingly. In my case it was honest but I’m sure you could tell them that and see how they react.

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You could always say after interviewing and finding out more about the role, you think $XYZ is more appropriate of a salary. I’m assuming the salary conversation happened prior to finishing the interview process.

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You can try just being honest and saying I shared a number that doesn’t match my value and I want to work with you and I want to feel excited/motivated/valued by my salary. I’d like x and would be very happy to take the job at that amount. Could you help make that happen?

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adding onto the other comments, you can also say hey i know we talked about potential salary range earlier on but upon future reflection, i would actually need xyz in order to leave my agency (can even throw an “im up for promotion” in there)

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I did the same thing recently and instead of trying to renegotiate the actual salary I said I wasn’t happy with the total compensation they offered. So I was able to get a 15% bonus, extra stock options, and some other perks instead. Honestly worked out great for me and I didn’t have to backtrack.

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Genius af. I’m gonna try this 🙌🏽

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