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The real answer? You negotiate like you have nothing to lose, otherwise, you’ve already declared your intent to settle.
Unless you’re retrading on numbers you already agreed on, you simply go back and demand what you can justify and defend that you are worth.
The trick is you have to be willing to risk it. Otherwise, accept the offer and try again someplace else when you have the upper hand.
Take their offer, tack 10-15% onto it and see what happens. You're right, you don't have leverage, but that doesn't mean they're going to yank the offer just because you dared to ask. If they don't budge, you're in the same spot you are now. Not a big deal.
This too. You might have 10 other offers on the table. They wouldn't know.
So… what you deserve isn’t what you think it is - it’s what you want to earn, not what your market value is.
Your market value is a function of what the company is willing to pay, what you’re willing to accept, and what the next best candidate is willing to accept (or how good the candidate is who is willing to accept the salary on offer).
Start with what they’ve offered you and negotiate - see where they are willing to go. Pull the “I have another offer that pays 10% more than this does - I’d much rather take this job, but the money is tough to turn down. Can you match that number?”
If they say no, say you need the weekend to weigh up your options. If that doesn’t move them, take the offer they made and go kick ass so very hard in the job to show them they need to pay you more.