Thinking about leaving Accenture and talking with a really small consulting firm that promises flexibility and good WLB. They asked about salary and think I shot myself in the foot as I put a number below my salary. Any way to recover from this? I just am wanting something else to see my wife more and thought if I did something lower it would be in their range and not blow my chances but also don’t want to take a 20% pay-cut.

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Why did you lowball yourself? Because they were small?

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Yes and also kind of desperate to get the job

Correct it via message to recruiter ASAP. Gotta align expectations as soon as possible to avoid wasting each other's time & effort.

How do I correct it? The only thing that comes to mind is I could say that I forgot that my salary was changing to $82K and would like to be slightly above or that

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