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[quote=Anonymous]I have a verbal offer. It's about 18% more in base salary than my current job, with slightly less bonus potential (though I think the bonus is more predictable than my current job, which has kind of a complicated compensation model). I feel like I'm underpaid now so I would have liked a bigger bump. I wasn't sure how to negotiate so when I got the offer, I said something to the effect of "I was hoping for a bit more". (I think I saw a post here recently that companies look down on you if you don't negotiate). She went "back to the business" and came back the next day offering a $5k signing bonus. She says I am at the high end of or even above the market reference point for this role and it's a good bump over my previous job (I had to put current salary on the application).

Is there anything else I can/should do to negotiate? I don't care TOO much about the money but I want to make sure I'm not being taken advantage of or leaving anything on the table.

The overall compensation is actually in line with what I put on the application but I can't remember if when I put that down I was thinking base or base plus bonus. Probably I was thinking base but that would have been like $40k over my base now so I know it was a little bit of a stretch.[/quote]

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