The offer negotiation brief

When an application is at Offer and you haven't accepted yet, press Negotiate on its card in Applications.

What you give it

Type the base pay you were offered, with its currency and whether it is per year or per hour, and anything else in the offer: a bonus, vacation, remote days, a start date or title. All of it is optional. The brief also uses the posting and your tailored résumé, and any pay the posting states.

What you get

• A short assessment of the offer.
• Ask for: one figure, with the reason for it.
• Your floor: the lowest figure worth taking, with its reason.
• Levers likely to move: the other items to ask about, and why each is likely.
• Talking points, an email and an on-a-call script you can copy, things worth asking, and what to do if they say no.

Cost

0.25 credits, charged when it is written. It is kept with the application, so opening it again for the same offer is free. If you change the offer you typed, it writes a new one. If you don't have enough credits, nothing is written and nothing is charged. What costs credits

It is advice for the conversation, not legal or financial advice, and it can't promise what an employer will agree to.