I’m dealing with an external recruiter for a industry role I’d like to take, we are at salary negotiation stages now and I initially said I would be happy with £85k (pre-interviews), in a later conversation he said the base is £120k + bonuses. He has now said they are offering £85k + bonuses and sign on amounting to around £115k. Do I double down and refer back to the £120k? It’s a massive jump in salary for me but I’m surprised the offer on his end has gone down to what I originally asked for.

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Granted, it’s a bit crappy, but if you got a quote for a job to be done you were expecting to pay 120 for but they quoted you 85, you’d probably take them at 85 too.

Reference the previous conversation that they said 120 was the base salary and have them push for that.

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