Ready-to-use AI prompts for salary negotiation — written for Job Seeker and easy to paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
When you need salary negotiation done, these job seeker prompts give you a fill-in-the-blanks starting point covering negotiation, salary, offer. Fill in fields like offer, current comp, market data and paste the result 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.
How to use this prompt
Fill in the blanks. Type your details into each highlighted field of this salary negotiation prompt — fields like offer, current comp, market data — and it rewrites itself live.
Copy the prompt. Press Copy prompt to put the finished salary negotiation prompt on your clipboard.
Paste into your AI model. Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any chat LLM to get your salary negotiation result.
Review and iterate. Read the response as a job seeker would, then adjust fields like offer, current comp, market data and re-run to sharpen it.
Fill-in fields explained
offer
base, bonus, equity, benefits, level, location
current comp
Your current comp.
market data
ranges you have found and from where
leverage
competing offers, in-demand skills, how badly they seem to want me, how badly I need this
priorities
what matters most beyond base
question asked
what are your salary expectations / what do you currently earn
stage of process
Your stage of process.
market range
range and source
target
Your target.
situation
current comp, how much I need this job, whether disclosure is legal to ask where I am
what they said
about flexibility
amount
Your amount.
full offer
all components
role
role, company type, stage
Frequently asked
Which AI models does the Salary Negotiation prompt work with?
The Salary Negotiation prompts for Job Seeker are plain-text and model-agnostic — paste them into ChatGPT (GPT-4o), Claude, Gemini, Llama, or any other chat model.
How do I customize the Salary Negotiation prompt for my own use?
Fill in the 14 labelled fields (offer, current comp, market data, …) before copying, or edit the [bracketed] text after you paste.
Are the Salary Negotiation prompts for Job Seeker free to use?
Yes. Every Salary Negotiation prompt here is free to copy and reuse, including for commercial and client work, with no sign-up.