Never ever disclose your previous compensation. If they insist, say you've signed a legal document for confidentiality. It's part of any recruiter training to a

Never ever disclose your previous compensation. If they insist, say you've signed a legal document for confidentiality. It's part of any recruiter training to avoid causing legal damage (they never ask you to disclose proprietary info from your previous employer since they can be fired for doing it). They'll give up instantly their requests upon hearing that. Never take into consideration your current salary when you're the first to give the number. Search the company, the job or/and the area on http://www.glassdoor.com/ http://www.glassdoor.com/ and use those averages plus 10% (more/less depending on how bad you want the job, how much risk you tolerate, how well you did on the interviews and how much experience do you have in the field).