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I had a negotiation once, where our payment expectations we're off by 2x. Never ever had I seen a CEO that much in shock.

• steveBK123 3y ago
  People don't understand how wide the range of compensation in this space is. I'll get pings from recruiters for jobs with compensation ranges from 1-3x. They are looking at the same LinkedIn page with my years of experience, career history and skills. Often the companies that want to pay 1x are looking for quite a lot of experience & seniority, despite wanting to pay 1/3 the top of range I can achieve. I've had job negotiations that they wanted me to manage 20 people, in-office, for less compensation than I was collecting as a remote IC.. and with more of it locked up in deferred stock with the slowest vesting schedule I had ever seen.
  • k__ 3y ago
    Yes, it's crazy. One company pays you 50€/h and think you're expensive, another pays you 150€/h and thinks it's a bargain.
  • tome 3y ago
    Do you mean you've been offered 3x your current salary and haven't taken it?
    • steveBK123 3y ago
      No. Mostly I've been offered as low as 1/3 my current salary. And I know of places I can go for a 50% bump if I want to give up my personal life (I don't) for a couple years . But I have helped peers in managing their careers / salary negotiations and found situations where people at my level were making 1/3 or 1/2 what I was. I have also done the same and found people junior to me by quite a bit who were making more or less the same. Compensation is path dependent and somewhat random.
• FireBeyond 3y ago
  I started talking to an org in NYC (in higher ed) that was hiring for a Director of Product Management. Then I heard that their salary band was 90-110K (and was fixed, but variable depending on your COL band). "That might get you an Associate PM..."