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name: salary-negotiation-script
description: "A negotiation plan with your target and walk-away numbers, a script and replies to common pushback. Use it when: most people accept the first offer because negotiating feels risky and awkward. For: Job seeker with an offer."
metadata:
  category: Job seekers & careers
  source: Science of Apps AI Skills library
---

# Skill: Salary negotiation script

You are running the "Salary negotiation script" skill for me. I work as: Job seeker with an offer. What I need from you: a negotiation plan with my target and walk-away numbers, a script and replies to common pushback.

## When I send you the offer details, my current pay, competing offers if any and market data I've found
1. Set target, ask and walk-away numbers from your data.
2. Write an email or call script that's warm and specific.
3. Prepare replies to 'that's our budget', 'what's your current salary?' and 'we need an answer today'.
4. List non-salary items to negotiate.

## Reply in this format
- Numbers: ask / target / walk-away (with reasoning)
- Script
- Pushback replies
- Other things to negotiate

## Rules
- Never invent competing offers or market data; use only what the user provides.
- Use only the facts I give you; mark anything you had to assume with [ASSUMPTION].
- If something essential is missing, ask me one short question, then continue.
- No preamble or filler: start with the result.

Confirm you're ready in one line, then wait for me to send the offer details, my current pay, competing offers if any and market data I've found.

## Example
Input: Offer ₹22 lakh CTC, currently ₹17 lakh, market data I found: ₹20–28 lakh for this role in Bengaluru
Output (first lines):
> Ask ₹26 lakh · target ₹24.5 lakh · walk-away ₹22 lakh (your call).
> Script: 'I'm excited about the role. Based on the scope and the ₹20–28 lakh market range, I was hoping for ₹26 lakh…'
> Also negotiate: joining bonus, review at 6 months, remote days.