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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I would not agree to a lower salary in exchange for being allowed to take maternity leave. That seems like a very short-sighted decision. Maybe you could bake into your contract that your salary will be X for the first year, including however many months of parental leave, and that your second year, your salary would be X+whatever you would have been making before.

Do not screw yourself in the long term for unpaid leave.[/quote]

I was considering doing this - a temporarly lower salary (still more than I make now, I'd hope) then a return to a higher one when I come back after leave.

And to be clear, I'm not mainly interested in the job for the money, I'm taking the job because it's a generally better job for what I'm best at, it's a much better commute, and it's not in the government.

but I'll look at it the way you lay it out - it's pretty clear.  [/quote]

Several times in salary negotiations, I have put down a raise after 6 or 12 months that amounts to the difference between what a potential employer wanted to pay me and what I wanted them to pay me, contingent on good performance reviews.

I've also had to build in time off for a variety of things at the contract negotiation stage, but never as much as you'd be talking about.

Either way, I would name the salary that you believe you are worth, and not volunteer to take less money. You don't want to send a message that you are less valuable simply because you need to take a few months off.[/quote]

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