Timeline for How to respond to a low salary offer?
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| Mar 17, 2015 at 20:11 | comment | added | Kevin | @Guillaume Like I said, if they renege on their promise to raise your salary after fifteen days, then you quit. This hurts them more than it hurts you as they have invested time and resources in getting you set up and training you. | |
| Mar 17, 2015 at 16:29 | comment | added | Guillaume | @Kevin, you will be harmed if you sell off yourself. If everybody refuses a low salary offer, then the manager have to come with an appropriate offer. It may also harm coworkers with a correct salary (why would the company keep them). By accepting a low salary you are telling that your skills doesn't deserve more. | |
| Mar 17, 2015 at 13:23 | comment | added | Kevin | I guess I've just encountered more honest people in the world than you guys. Plus, if he is already unemployed, where is the harm? | |
| Mar 17, 2015 at 0:29 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | Indeed, if you say "I require you to offer me a permanent salary of X, but I'm prepared to accept a probationary salary of Y for 15 days", and that's in your contract, then they should expect to pay X after 15 days or sack you. And you should not expect the probationary salary to be permanent. However, it's desperately unlikely that a company making a permanent hire for a salaried position is negotiating hard over the first 15 days of pay. If they're offering lower it's because they want to pay lower for more than 15 days. | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 23:17 | comment | added | Kevin | Why is it bad advice? If you agree that it is only for the 15 day probationary period, then it is not going to be a "permanent salary" unless the owner is a liar. If that is the case, you quit and move on. | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 19:59 | comment | added | phpisuber01 | This is bad advice. If you accept a "probational salary" expect it to be permanent. Move up or move on otherwise you'll end up working on the cheap. | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 19:40 | history | answered | Kevin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |