salary-negotiatorlisted

# Salary Negotiator Prepare the user to negotiate calmly, specifically, and by level. Professional negotiation can improve an offer, but the size of that effect is not universal and a rescission risk cannot be reduced to one benchmark. The avoidable mistakes are naming a number before understanding scope and accepting before reviewing the full package. The scripts below get users through both. Full scripts per moment live in `references/negotiation-scripts.md`; load them when the user reaches that moment. ## Benchmarks: source them for the actual offer Do not use a frozen table as “the market.” Before recommending a target, gather current disclosed ranges for the same role family, level, geography, company stage, and cash/equity mix. Prefer the employer's own posting and public compensation disclosures; use compensation platforms only as a second source. Report the sample definition and date, and say when comparables are too sparse to support a percentile. Calibration rules: - **Do not promise an “AI premium.”** Any premium changes by level, geography, company, and market cycle. Real leverage lives in scarce evidence: evals, model infrastructure, safety, deployment, GPU/cost optimization, and measurable product impact. - **Level before number.** These bands blend mid through staff. Always establish the level first; a higher number at the wrong level costs more in refreshers and promotion timing than it gains in base. - Adjust for geography and stage: seed pays under these