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That is already big pay here. I was negotated by an employeer in US then asked me of my previous salary and want to base my salary on what I have been earning.

sudowhodoido 12y ago
Lie to them to bump it up or tell them that your previous employer asked not to disclose it. Works every time. They're using a standard technique to smack your pay down and it works for a lot of people but there's nothing wrong with playing them at their own game and using it against them. Not joking but when it comes to negotiating pay, you need to take control over it. I managed to go from (I've converted these from GBP) $23k to $56k by doing that in one jump and three jumps later I'm earning $110k sitting on my butt at home. Just requires some balls and outward confidence which I will admit was slightly alcohol fuelled when I was on the phone choke hmm. Plus I know what I'm doing but that's a case of two decades of hard work and is entirely separate to the job market and salary expectations unfortunately which is all about knocking people's salary down.
- carrotleads 12y ago
  I concur with this POV. just have some balls when negotiating and prepare to walk away. Get some practice in on jobs that you don't really want, negotiate hard for them and get used to the negotiation to and fro. Some of these managers/biz people get paid $200+/hr and so don't battle an eyelid when you have some balls. Infact your image goes up in their eyes.
- hackerboos 12y ago
  Are you self-employed or remote? I've found remote work hard to come by in the UK.
  - sudowhodoido 12y ago
    Both. I do anything that comes by. I'm currently contracting to a large financial company in the UK, fixing a pile of laptops to sell on ebay, doing a couple of web sites for people in europe and rewriting an ASP.Net web app for a company in Ireland. Remote work is easy to find in the UK, but through word of mouth. You'll get nothing through the agents.
- gdiocarez 12y ago
  I have read about employers asking for precious salary and base the new job in the same rate.
jc123 12y ago
Patio11 also wrote http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation There's also HN discussion of it if you search
danielweber 12y ago
Your previous salary is none of their business. I had someone demand my salary expectations in an email two days ago, and I answered with a question about whom I would be reporting to. I haven't heard back yet. Maybe they flushed me for "not following the rules." Fair enough. You do not want to deal with people like that. Bad clients are worse than no clients. And I'm saying that as someone who currently doesn't have full-time work, and is looking for it, and has a family to raise. Now, sometimes I have found that their maximum salary was beneath my minimum accepted value. They can stop wasting their time if they announce their salary upfront, but for some reason they won't do that. Their loss.

sudowhodoido 12y ago

Lie to them to bump it up or tell them that your previous employer asked not to disclose it. Works every time. They're using a standard technique to smack your pay down and it works for a lot of people but there's nothing wrong with playing them at their own game and using it against them. Not joking but when it comes to negotiating pay, you need to take control over it. I managed to go from (I've converted these from GBP) $23k to $56k by doing that in one jump and three jumps later I'm earning $110k sitting on my butt at home. Just requires some balls and outward confidence which I will admit was slightly alcohol fuelled when I was on the phone choke hmm. Plus I know what I'm doing but that's a case of two decades of hard work and is entirely separate to the job market and salary expectations unfortunately which is all about knocking people's salary down.

carrotleads 12y ago
I concur with this POV. just have some balls when negotiating and prepare to walk away. Get some practice in on jobs that you don't really want, negotiate hard for them and get used to the negotiation to and fro. Some of these managers/biz people get paid $200+/hr and so don't battle an eyelid when you have some balls. Infact your image goes up in their eyes.
hackerboos 12y ago
Are you self-employed or remote? I've found remote work hard to come by in the UK.
- sudowhodoido 12y ago
  Both. I do anything that comes by. I'm currently contracting to a large financial company in the UK, fixing a pile of laptops to sell on ebay, doing a couple of web sites for people in europe and rewriting an ASP.Net web app for a company in Ireland. Remote work is easy to find in the UK, but through word of mouth. You'll get nothing through the agents.
gdiocarez 12y ago
I have read about employers asking for precious salary and base the new job in the same rate.

jc123 12y ago

Patio11 also wrote http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation There's also HN discussion of it if you search

danielweber 12y ago

Your previous salary is none of their business. I had someone demand my salary expectations in an email two days ago, and I answered with a question about whom I would be reporting to. I haven't heard back yet. Maybe they flushed me for "not following the rules." Fair enough. You do not want to deal with people like that. Bad clients are worse than no clients. And I'm saying that as someone who currently doesn't have full-time work, and is looking for it, and has a family to raise. Now, sometimes I have found that their maximum salary was beneath my minimum accepted value. They can stop wasting their time if they announce their salary upfront, but for some reason they won't do that. Their loss.