$51,000 $74,000I am currently talking to an employer for a job with a county position in Virginia. The posted salary is between $51-74,000 a year. That is quite a large gap. I have all the experience and requirements they are asking for. I have not been called for an interview hopefully this week, , but on the application i put on for a salary $72,000. With this large of a gap...what figure should i focus on negotiating? I would like around 60-65. With many government jobs they have a very specific chart. Your experience, education, skills are put on a graph and wherever you end up, so does your salary. You then continue to go up based on seniority and additional skills/education/experience. If you' re a perfect match for all requirements you might get as high as the midpoint, or they may start their perfect matches at the bottom of the scale and work up. The general idea is to objectively match the level of experience, skills, training, and/or education with the requirements of the job. Here' s a sample of how it usually works: A couple of years of experience that matches the job exactly, you' re offered the base plus, let' s say, $3K; five to ten years of experience, you' re offered the base plus $5K to $10K, and so forth. Government jobs, local, state, or federal, are regulated by a pre-determined set of rules that ordinarily are fixed and inflexible - (discourages people from having to think). I think it' s highly unlikely that you' ll be offered a salary that' s at or near the top of the range or that the offer will be negotiable - but you can always ask politely if it is. If that were to happen, there would be no room for you to move up the salary ladder for that particular job over time. Make sense? | |
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