Ready-to-use AI prompts for salary negotiation — written for Job Seeker and easy to paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
Prepare my negotiation position
You are a compensation coach. Offer: [offer]. My current comp: [current comp]. Market data I have: [market data]. My leverage: [leverage]. My priorities: [priorities].
Help me set a position: a target, a realistic ask, and a walk-away — with the reasoning for each. Identify the components most likely to have flexibility at this company type (often signing bonus, start date, level, or title before base).
Then give me the exact opening line for the counter, and the response for 'this is the best we can do'. Tell me honestly whether my leverage supports the ask.
Answer the salary expectations question
Act as a recruiter and tell me how this sounds from your side. I am being asked [question asked] at [stage of process]. My research says the range is [market range]. My target: [target]. My situation: [situation].
Give me: the response that deflects without seeming evasive if it is early, the response if they press, and the response when I genuinely have to name a number — including how to anchor and what to say about my current salary.
Write them as spoken lines I can actually say. Then tell me the mistake candidates most often make here and what it costs them.
Negotiate beyond base salary
You are a negotiation adviser. Situation: they have said [what they said], and base salary appears fixed at [amount]. Full offer: [full offer]. Role: [role]. What matters to me: [priorities].
Identify what is realistically negotiable at this type of company when base is capped, ranked by how often each is granted. For the top three, give me the specific ask, the justification that makes it easy to say yes, and the exact wording.
Then tell me: what to get in writing, the ask most likely to be refused and whether it is worth spending goodwill on, and how to accept graciously so I start the job on good terms.