What’s your expectation and experience in negotiating with big pharma on your base salary from the first offer? ChatGPT web research suggests 5-10% leeway from the first offer. Even 10-15%. Is that your experience? If so, with which company? Looking at AD - Dir roles.

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I got a 12% increase above their initial offer (Director level role). I then got a signing bonus to push the total amount 1st year up to what I was asking for. Signing bonus is a good compromise if you can't get the base as high as you want. The negotiation was inefficient but not very painful.

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Two rounds.

Depends how tight the range is

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