I am a senior associate with 5, going 6, years of experience in public accounting. I recently had a client contact me about me coming to work for them. I would work directly under / with the VP of Finance for a real estate company. The VP of Finance wants to retire in 3 years, having me take over for her. She is offering me $100,000 a year. However I am wondering if I should tell her I want a higher salary, like $150,000. What would you do?

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There may be an opportunity to get to that. But I think you'd probably have to make a pretty good case for yourself. If you can articulate that you'd bring that much value to the company you may convince the client that you're worth it. Sounds like a challenge, but it might be worth trying. The danger would be coming off as seeming unserious and having the offer fall apart.

Totally understand! However when I talked with her she continually re-assured me that the pay is there and she really wants me to come work with her. I feel like I have some leverage to ask for higher pay but not really sure how to go about it. I have been working on her audit for the past 5 years. She has hired a couple other people that didn’t work out and finally contact me in May about it.

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