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When in the job process, you are trying to find the right fit in terms of you and the firm. One thing that you always have to keep in mind is salary. Money is always in the back of our minds or maybe someone's main motivation in looking for work. Either way, we can negotiate salary with employers and it is a perfectly okay.

In What Color is Your Parachute? 2016, Richard Bolles discusses how to appropriately negotiate salary with employers. We always want to make sure we get the right fit with the right income. So we should negotiate, but, Bolles strongly encourages not to discuss salary until they have made their decision about higher you or not.We would like to find out what this company is all about while not making it all about the money. After, we have gone through the process and figure out all we have wanted to know, we should then begin the negotiation.

While in the negotiation process, we want to figure out what is the most the employer is willing to pay. What you have to do is figure out the range of the pay the employer is looking for. When they give you a range, the average between those numbers is most likely what they would like to get you for. So figure out the range and try to get as close to the top of that range.

Going back to the interview, Bolles gives additional advice, saying we should not mention pay first. We should try to get the employer to mention it first because once you say a number is may be lower or high then they expected and you do not want to cheat your self out of additional income you could have earned. With that say, before your final interview, make sure you do some research on similar jobs and see what they pay. This will give you a better idea of how much you can potentially earn.