1. The company you describe was never going to pay you much more than $100k. If you wanted more than that, you should have picked a different company. Setting y

1. The company you describe was never going to pay you much more than $100k. If you wanted more than that, you should have picked a different company. Setting your salary is more about efficiently finding that other company, and less about negotiation. 2. Your willingness to walk away is, indeed, your primary leverage. Ongoing employment is a great way to have lots of leverage there — you can start filtering out offers at the "recruiter is emailing me" stage — otherwise, develop leverage by collecting multiple offers at once (lining up a variety of interviews so that they come in around the same time).