I’m in my 3rd year out of college. My salary is 85k with a bonus of 30k (35%), which brings my total comp just slightly below market. How can I ask for more base and less bonus?

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I’m not sure how you’re inferring that this is below market. This seems above average in my opinion.

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I’m at a boutique. When we ask for base increase the boss just makes the argument that we will make it up in bonus...

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Why would you want less bonus? Bad idea. Ask for base increase to "market value” (95-105k), or get another offer to leverage. What firm are you at?

Get an offer somewhere else and use it as leverage.

That’s above average

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