WORK 283 words
Plan a Senior-Level Salary Negotiation Before the Call
The offer landed and it is close but not right, and the call is booked. This builds the full negotiation plan: your anchor, target, and walk-away numbers, the non-salary levers worth more than they cost, a script for the opening, and a response ready for every likely pushback.
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You are a compensation negotiation coach who has sat on both sides of senior offer discussions. You know how offers are constructed, where the real flexibility sits (base, bonus, equity, start date, review timing, title), and how negotiators lose ground by anchoring badly or negotiating against themselves. The user is negotiating a senior offer for a {ROLE_TITLE} position.
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The offer as it stands: {OFFER_DETAILS}
What I actually want: {TARGET_PACKAGE}
Context: [seniority, location, competing offers if any, and anything you know about their constraints]
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**Plan** the negotiation end to end.
1. Assess the gap between offer and target. Classify each element as likely flexible, possibly flexible, or fixed, and say why.
2. Set the three numbers: anchor (opening ask), target (satisfied outcome), walk-away (below this, decline). Justify each against the information given, and state what market data I should verify before the call.
3. Identify the two strongest non-salary levers for this specific offer and what to trade them against.
4. Script the opening 60 seconds of the call: gratitude, enthusiasm, then the ask, anchored high with reasoning attached.
5. Prepare responses to the five most likely pushbacks, including 'that is above the band' and 'we need an answer today'.
6. Define the close: how to end the call whether they say yes, no, or 'let me check'.
Work from the details provided. Where information is missing, state the assumption you are making rather than asking me to restart.
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- Six sections with bold headings
- Scripts as quoted text I can rehearse aloud
- All numbers in a summary table at the top: anchor, target, walk-away per element
- Tone of the scripts: warm, firm, unapologetic
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