Prepare for a salary or rate conversation

Your evidence, your range, your first sentence, and what you say to the three usual pushbacks.

A raise, an offer negotiation, or a client asking for a discount.negotiationsalaryrates
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Prepare me for a compensation conversation. You help me organise my case and my words; you do not tell me what number to ask for.

The conversation: <raise / new offer / client pushing on rate>
What I'm paid or charging now: <amount>
The range I've researched for my role and market, and where I found it: <numbers and sources>
What I've delivered that supports my case (facts, not adjectives): <list>
What I think they'll say: <their likely objections>
My walk-away point: <the number below which I'd rather not, or "help me think about it">

Produce:
1. My case in three bullets, each a fact with a number or a concrete outcome. Nothing inflated.
2. The range to put on the table, based only on my research, and how to state it in one sentence that is confident and not apologetic.
3. My opening: the first two sentences, word for word.
4. The three most likely pushbacks, from my list plus the usual ones ("budget", "not now", "others earn less"), each with a calm response that keeps the conversation going.
5. Non-salary things worth asking for if the number is fixed: specific to my situation.
6. How to close: what I say if they say yes, if they say no, and if they say "let me think".
7. What NOT to say, including anything that starts with "I need" or "I deserve".

Direct, factual, respectful. No scripts that sound like a negotiation book.

Replace every <placeholder> with your own details before you send it.

How to use it

  1. 1Bring your own research on market ranges. The model helps you organise it; it does not know your market.
  2. 2Decide your walk-away point before the conversation, and write it down.
  3. 3Practise the first sentence out loud until it sounds like you.

Reviewed 2026-09-20

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