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Salary Negotiation

Market pay research, a clear target and walk-away figure, and practised scripts for negotiating salary, bonus, equity and benefits on new offers and at annual pay reviews.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Salary Negotiation, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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🧭 Career Growth

Salary Negotiation

Researching market pay and negotiating salary, bonus and benefits for new offers and annual pay reviews.

  1. Inventory of your current pay and benefits package
  2. Market pay range for your role and level
  3. Your employer's pay bands and review calendar
  4. Target, opening and walk-away figures
  5. Value evidence sheet for pay conversations
  6. Total compensation calculator spreadsheet
  7. Alternatives map if the answer is no
  8. Answers to salary history and expectation questions
  9. Pay transparency and salary history rules where you work
  10. Quarterly market pay check-in
  11. Pay review season preparation calendar
  12. Monthly impact note for the pay case
  13. Payslip and pay change audit
  14. Market pay intelligence log
  15. Annual benefits enrolment review
  16. Bonus target tracking through the year
  17. Negotiation debrief log
  18. Real pay check against inflation
  19. Negotiation fundamentals reading plan
  20. Anchoring and naming the first number
  21. Scripts for 'there is no budget' and other objections
  22. Mock salary negotiation with a practice partner
  23. Writing a negotiation email or written counter
  24. Reading pay clauses in an offer letter and contract
  25. Understanding equity and stock compensation terms
  26. Counter-proposal on a new job offer
  27. Annual pay review meeting
  28. Sign-on bonus and start date terms
  29. Negotiating non-salary benefits
  30. Title and level negotiation at offer stage
  31. Out-of-cycle raise after a role expansion
  32. Bonus structure renegotiation
  33. Equity grant and refresh negotiation
  34. Recruiter screening call with the salary question
  35. Verbal offer call without accepting on the spot
  36. Final offer sign-off and written confirmation
  37. Pay conversation when a promotion is confirmed
  38. Fixed-term contract renewal rate negotiation
  39. First job offer negotiation
  40. Pay rise request for hourly and shift work
  41. Public sector and union pay scale progression
  42. Pro-rata pay check for part-time and reduced hours
  43. Freelance and contractor day rate setting
  44. Location-based pay for remote roles
  45. Cash and equity mix in a startup offer
  46. Pay equity check against peers and bands
  47. Three-year pay trajectory plan
  48. Retention bonus terms and clawback review
  49. Senior package terms on notice, deferred pay and change of control
  50. Making the pay case for someone on your team

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Inventory of your current pay and benefits package

Most people can quote their base salary but not the value of their pension contribution, bonus target, health cover or leave allowance, so they negotiate on one number out of eight. Writing the whole package down from your contract, payslips and benefits portal gives you a true starting figure and shows which parts are worth asking about.

First tasks

  • Download your latest payslip and find your employment contract
  • List base pay, bonus target, allowances and overtime terms
  • Look up the employer pension contribution and insurance values in the benefits portal
  • Add up an annual total package figure and date it
  • Refresh the package summary after any change to pay or benefits @recurring(yearly)

Market pay range for your role and level

Any pay ask that rests on how you feel is easy to turn down; one that rests on five comparable data points is not. Gathering ranges from salary surveys, pay-transparent job adverts, recruiter conversations and professional body reports for your exact role, level and location gives you a defensible range rather than a single guess.

First tasks

  • Write a two-line description of your role, level and location to match against
  • Collect salary ranges from five job adverts that publish pay
  • Check one salary survey or professional body pay report for your field
  • Ask one recruiter in your sector what the role pays now
  • Work out the low, middle and high figures and note where you sit

Your employer's pay bands and review calendar

Inside most organisations pay moves on a timetable and within bands, and the budget is often set weeks before anyone talks to you. Finding out your band, its midpoint, when budgets are fixed and who signs off rises tells you when to speak and how much room there realistically is.

First tasks

  • Search the intranet or HR policies for the pay and grading policy
  • Ask HR or your manager which band your level sits in
  • Find out when the pay budget is set and when rises are announced
  • Write down who proposes and who approves rises for your team

Make it yours.

Install Salary Negotiation, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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