Just negotiated a 35% salary bump and promo for my new job!!! Used to be too afraid to negotiate. Just sharing my news to motivate someone else and bc I’m just dang excited! 😬😩🤪

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This is for a new company. It took about 3 months to get to the official offer from the first discussion with the firm. So I utilized this time to structure how much I wanted to earn and determine what I was worth. Look up BATNA! I used this as a resource https://salary.aauw.org/ albeit generic - it helped me organize my thoughts and how I would approach the negotiations. Also did tons of Glassdoor research and dug through Fishbowl (seriously it’s a lot of self reported data on here about how much people got offered for certain positions/levels - may be outliers here but helps to know I utilized this as I would information about salary from a friend) I also had discussions with other firms and flat out asked the salary range of the positions they were trying to place me in. (i did this with the firms I did not necessarily want to work for but were competitors in the space - was not bold enough to ask this to company that I signed with lol)
I also chose to avoid the salary discussion until after the offer. The offer came in at 10k more than what I was currently making - but I chose to ask for the title bump and 20k more. When I came back with my counter I provided justification supporting my ask. (Had a call with the recruiter then emailed her my key justification points so she could advocate on my behalf. MD approved the bump and salary requirement based on the justification I provided. (Nerve racking and scary but the most they could say - was no and now I feel proud I pushed for more!)
Keep all of this in mind it was my first time really negotiating more than 5k and may not be how everyone else would approach it but worked for me!

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Yayy!! Any tips on how you did it?

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I love this!!! We should all share good news like this and help each other. Good job OP!!

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CONGRATS! 🥳 also please share tips- I am in the boat of also being afraid to negotiate

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At your current firm or are you leaving a firm to join another? I would also be interested in tips

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Well done !!

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Congratulations. Thank you for sharing

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Congratulations!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Congrats OP!!!! What type of role did you end up going for?

Well done!!! I thought all management consulting had grids / levels you couldn’t negotiate? 😱

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Good job

Congrats!!

Congrats!!!

That’s awesome’

I’m currently negotiating as well, I’d really be interested in seeing your reasons that you emailed!

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