Congratulations on your offer. > Am I wrong to expect more? It's fine for you to ask for more. But you shouldn't expect more as, from the company's perspectiv

Congratulations on your offer. > Am I wrong to expect more? It's fine for you to ask for more. But you shouldn't expect more as, from the company's perspective, it's highly unlikely that you're currently that valuable. In fact, it's very unlikely that you're as valuable as the offer you currently have; but they're willing to pay for potential. Please don't take that as a criticism, it's true for nearly all graduates who are offered places on graduate programmes. The whole point of graddie programmes is to get folk to a point where they are valuable. Usually that's 18 months to 2 years down the track. So it doesn't make a lot of sense to differentiate incoming compensation as they're not paying for your current value. TBH if the company did think you were currently valuable (as against potentially), they could have always just offered you a position as an experienced employee. That's likely easier to do in practice than mess around with a graddie programme. It's also very unusual in my experience for new graddies, even with internships under their belt. Very few have enough relevant experience to warrant it.