When you negotiate an offer, do you consider the whole package at one time or try to go at it with base salary first then work out all the other details once you’ve come to an agreement on the salary? I’m in an unfortunate financial situation right now and while company match 401k is a great benefit, I need max cash now so those things aren’t factoring into my decision atm. I don’t want to lose out on cash if I’m too busy trying to ask for other things.

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I would recommend you to review the whole package and negotiate all at the same. Talk about what matters to you the most first. The aim is to have least amount of back and forth during the process. Have plan B, C, D is place if they can’t meet you where you want them to. Good luck!

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I think most people try to negotiate base salary first and if that seems non-negotiable they will pivot to negotiating bonuses, 401k matches, and/or PTO. I'd just focus on what you actually really want.

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Most companies don't give much room for negotiation in the base salary as most of the other benefits are calculated on the base salary.

Things like: Annual Bonus, RSUs, 401k are all a % of base salary. If you try to negotiate top of the range for base, then the TC will get to more than 95 percentile which most companies don't want (especially in this market). Also, if one comes in with top of the range salary, the yearly increments thereafter are also affected as there's no room to grow unless you encroach upon the next salary range.

I'm right there with you, I care a lot less about benefits than I do about base compensation. Stock options don't really mean a lot to me since most companies don't even let you do anything with them for several years.

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