I need some guidance on what I should counter offer. I got an offer from a big aerospace firm. 145k base, 10% annual cash bonus, and 15k sign on. (Annual merit increase is 3-5%). That puts me around 174 for the first year. My current salary is 177 (will be 185 come March 1 due to annual merit increase). This position would allow me to go back to what I actually am trained to do and what I love doing. They reached out to me and asked me to apply. What would you counter?

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I would show them proof of your current base+ bonus + expected salary increase will be. Ask them if they can match or compete. If not, then ask yourself if the extra few thousand worth it in your price bracket with COL factored or if working where you want to apply yourself matters more.

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If that's your situation, then it sounds like it's either negotiating a match/greater salary or walking from the negotiations.

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Ask them what the budget is for the position and go from there

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In my experience that usually doesn’t go over well, it just gets met with “we pay in accordance with experience and the pay band” and their bands are well over 6 figure gaps

“Im really hoping that this could be more of bilateral move for me. I’d really like to get as close as possible to a 170k base. Can we talk about getting closer to that number? “ if it’s in the budget, they’ll probably settle under that number but much closer.

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Ask and see what they’re response is

Ask them to at match $185k

You don’t feel like that is too high of a counter offer? That’d mean I’d have to ask for a base of 168,000 (the annual bonus is 10%) to put me at 185.

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