If you're afraid of telling a company you'd move for more money, you've subordinated yourself and abdicated your own economic agency before negotiations even be

If you're afraid of telling a company you'd move for more money, you've subordinated yourself and abdicated your own economic agency before negotiations even begin. I tell every recruiter my price right off the bat and get plenty of interview offers. Unconditional devotion is reserved for my wife, who actually deserves it. I wouldn't respect a company that expects me to stick around at below-market pay for "the culture". Tech companies already appropriate your labor on the cheap and keep the (enormous) difference. No culture makes up for that. They should at least pay market rate. I'm not a dupe.