Anirudh Palaskar shares three salary negotiation tactics for UX professionals: research what peers earn to set a floor, ask the hiring manager for the salary band upfront and quote a range instead of a single number, and push back if they anchor to your previous salary. Do your homework and negotiate from data.
3 important tips for UX salary negotiation. If you don't know how much salary to ask for or how to negotiate your salary, let me help you with that. Tip number 1: Always stay updated with the market salary trends. Yes, go forward and explore what is the salary that other people with your number of years of experience is getting in market so that you know that this is the minimum amount of salary that I can always go ahead and ask for. Make sure to do your homework first before asking for any number from the HR. Tip number 2: Set the expectation right in the very first round. Make sure that you ask your HR in the very first round that what is the salary band for the position that you are applying for. If not, make sure that you set the expectation right by saying that, you know what, I'm looking for a specific range of salary, which is 5 to 8 lakhs, 8 to 10 lakhs, or 12 to 14 lakhs. Make sure that you always talk in range and not a specific number. Tip number 3: Get a reasonable decent hike. You know what, the worst part about salary negotiation is that most of the company will always say that your new salary is going to be dependent on your previous salary. Well, in order to handle this situation, make sure that you go ahead and transparently say that my
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