Research market rates, build negotiation strategy, and create counter-offer scripts
Salary Negotiation Prep is a guidance skill that helps job seekers prepare for and execute compensation negotiations. It addresses a common problem: candidates leave money on the table because they don't know market rates, how to structure a counter-offer, or what to say when a recruiter pushes back. The skill frames negotiation as an expected, win-win process and walks the user from market research through to a finished counter-offer plan.
Its workflow has three phases. First, a research phase points to public salary sources (Levels.fyi, Glassdoor, LinkedIn Salary, Blind, PayScale, Salary.com, and H1B data) and helps build a low/target/high/stretch range while accounting for factors that raise or limit the user's value. Second, it teaches total-compensation math beyond base salary, covering signing and annual bonuses, equity terms (RSUs, options, vesting, refresh grants), 401k match, and benefits. Third, it provides negotiation strategy with timing guidance, a counter-offer framework, ready-to-adapt email and call scripts, and scripted responses for common scenarios such as a low first offer, being asked for salary expectations or current salary (including a note that the current-salary question is illegal in many states), a firm base, and competing offers.
The target users are individual job candidates and career changers across roles and seniority levels, from entry level to experienced tech workers. It is purely advisory text with no code, tools, or external calls, so its value is entirely in the templates, scripts, and structured thinking it supplies. It is best used after receiving a written offer and before signing.
After you have a written offer and before you sign. The skill recommends receiving the offer, thanking the employer, taking 24-48 hours to research and prepare, then countering by email or call.
A negotiation plan: a researched compensation range, a total-compensation calculation, and adaptable counter-offer email and call scripts, plus scripted responses for scenarios like low first offers, competing offers, and being asked your current salary.
No. It lists public sources to check (Levels.fyi, Glassdoor, LinkedIn Salary, Blind, PayScale, Salary.com, H1B data) and shows how to build a percentile range, but the user gathers the numbers. It provides guidance, not live salary data.
It is applicable across roles, though some sources (like Levels.fyi) and examples (RSUs, equity vesting) skew toward tech. The negotiation framework and scripts generalize to most salaried offers.
No. It notes that asking about current salary is illegal in many U.S. states and suggests deflection language, but it is not a substitute for legal counsel on employment law.
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