Negotiate my salary or a raise
Research, a target number, scripts, and responses for salary and raise conversations.
The prompt
Help me negotiate my pay.
Situation: [new job offer / raise at current job / promotion]
Role, level, location: [DETAILS]
Current offer or salary: [NUMBERS, including bonus, equity, benefits]
Market data I have: [salary ranges, sites, peers]
My leverage: [other offers, achievements, scarce skills, results]
What matters besides base pay: [remote work, title, start date, learning budget, equity]
Deliver:
1. A target, an anchor (opening ask), and a walk-away number, with the reasoning.
2. My value case — 3 evidence points to lead with.
3. A script for the conversation (or email), in my voice.
4. Responses to likely pushback: "That's above our budget", "This is our standard offer", "Let's revisit in six months".
5. Non-salary items to trade if base pay is fixed.
Tell me where to verify market data — don't invent salary figures.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- new job offer / raise at current job / promotion
- DETAILS
- NUMBERS, including bonus, equity, benefits
- salary ranges, sites, peers
- other offers, achievements, scarce skills, results
- remote work, title, start date, learning budget, equity
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the RTF structure (Role, Task, Format). RTF tells the model who to be, what to do and what shape the answer should take. It is the quickest structure that still gives noticeably better results than a bare request.
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