Fearless Salary Negotiation
by Josh Doody · first published 2015
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This is highly variable, depending upon geography, experience, ability to sell yourself, and specialty. Take a look at GlassDoor, and also consider Josh Doody's "Fearless Salary Negotiation" book.
on “How much do AWS engineers earn?” ↗Fearless Salary Negotiation by Josh Doody. Negotiate your salary, people!
on “Ask HN: Which books made you the most money?” ↗Fearless Salary Negotiation is a great book - very approachable and practical. I learned a lot from it. Also for context - just remember that actually negotiating already puts you in a good subset of people. Many people - including…
on ““Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?” ↗+1 for Fearless Salary Negotiation. I read it when interviewing 3 years ago and used a variation of one of the email scripts to negotiate a ~25% increase from first offer. Also, I don't personally recommend talking about salary expectations…
on “Ask HN: Negotiating Salary” ↗Read a few books on salary negotiation. Try Negotiating Your Salary by Jack Chapman. Fakespot says that Fearless Salary Negotiation by Doody is loaded with fake amazon reviews, so I might give that one a miss. And, read "Never Split the Difference" by Voss.
on “Ask HN: What should I do to prepare for a meeting about my annual raise?” ↗I looked for resources a few years ago and found a post by a software engineer talking about "Fearless Salary Negotiation" [1]. The engineer said: "it's a small book, cost me around 40 bucks which were immediately compensated by the fact that I managed to negotiate a higher salary". I wanted to ask for a raise: I had been…
on “Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)” ↗…buy them coffee to learn whatever you can. Once you've gone through those three phases, you should have a pretty good idea what your market value is. Read more You can read the chapter from my book Fearless Salary Negotiation here: https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/book/value You can get a free guide, worksheet and short video course to walk you through the process here: https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/how-to-estimate-your-m...
on “Ask HN: How can I know what my market rate salary is?” ↗I write about this specific question in my book "Fearless Salary Negotiation". I'm happy to go deeper if you have further questions—just reply to this comment. The short answer is you shouldn't ask for anything. It's in your best interest to keep both your desired and current…
on “Salary negotiation: how much should I ask for?” ↗…expect and exactly how to respond: https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/the-dreaded-salary-que... And we go into more detail in this episode. To put a finer point on it: A lot of the reason I created Fearless Salary Negotiation is specifically to address the factors you mentioned. It's why a lot of my examples in the book involve software developers and related topics. If I can clarify or elaborate on anything that was vague…
on “Salary Negotiation” ↗I mean, I've never used it but Fearless Salary Negotiation[1] is commonly recommended? [1]: https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com
on “Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?” ↗Josh here (I wrote Fearless Salary Negotiation), and I just wanted to say that it's fantastic to hear that you got such a great outcome. Great work! And thanks for sharing this publicly, if for no other reason than it made may day. Cheers!
on “Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)” ↗