Is the Hr lying when they told me the salary is not negotiable? How to properly respond and get my base higher? My last job’s HR told me the same thing but I found out My pay is 20% lower than my colleges.

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As a former internal & external recruiter & HR Project Manager:

1) If HR says it’s non-negotiable, it’s likely, non-negotiable. There are plenty of times where it’s negotiable, and they will go through that process.

2) 20% pay range between employees in the same job, on the same team and the same department isn’t all that uncommon. There are a lot of factors that can go into how that happens - when I hired people I pulled the team they were joining, their resumes, their salary & compared the new hire to the existing team. I would place them where they aligned with their peers. That was essentially the only way to keep equity established. I was making 20% less than my peers who had a higher education and slightly more experience than I did. Fast forward 2 years and I’ve moved around and closed that gap significantly.

3) You can usually only try to negotiate after you’ve received a formal offer. No offer, no real need to negotiate.

4) You can try to negotiate when you’re going through an initial offer - you likely will never negotiate your current salary in your current role after you’ve been hired.

5) If you want to negotiate - you need to be willing to walk away. I’ve never rescinded an offer from a candidate who wanted to negotiate, but I have told plenty of them they should walk away - if the money isn’t going to cover you financially - don’t take the job - if it’s going to make living more difficult than your current job, don’t take this one.

6) HR has little to nothing to lose - they’re not going to waste their time lying to you - it’s not their checkbook and they’re not responsible for it - the department you’re interviewing for is.


If you feel like you’re getting stiffed by HR, you can let the hiring manager know in a polite email, that they offered you X, you asked for Y and due to them not meeting your expectations, that you cannot move forward in the process - thank them for their time and you move on.

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SP1 can we pin this to this entire fishbowl app?!? This is everything. I wish more people understood this.

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