Your cost of living is the minimum that you can accept. How much the company will earn from the products of your labor is the maximum that they can pay you. Fo

Your cost of living is the minimum that you can accept. How much the company will earn from the products of your labor is the maximum that they can pay you. For high-value workers, there is a large gap between those two. Negotiating is about dividing the surplus. Your strategy suggests "give almost all of the surplus away."