#80 Cybersecurity Salary Negotiation: I Asked for More Than Their Salary Cap... They Paid Me
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#80 Cybersecurity Salary Negotiation: I Asked for More Than Their Salary Cap... They Paid Me

B1IntermediateJuly 31, 202654 min

In this episode of The Hacker’s Cache, I break down exactly how to negotiate a cybersecurity salary, answer salary expectation questions, counter a job offer, and ask for more money without talking yourself out of the opportunity. I share the negotiation scripts I use, real counteroffer emails that earned me thousands more, why you should avoid naming the first number, how to evaluate total compensation, and how I negotiated above a company’s stated salary cap. Whether you are preparing for a cybersecurity interview, reviewing a new job offer, or trying to get paid what you are worth, this...

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Welcome to the Hackers Cash, the show that decrypts the secrets of cybersecurity one bite at a time. I'm your host, Kaiser Clark, and in this episode, we're going to be talking about mastering the cybersecurity interview and salary negotiation strategies for success. So for those who are listening to the last episode, you know that I recently completed a job search, which included tons of interviews and a salary negotiation. and a couple episodes ago I had mentioned that you should always ask for more money when you

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get a job offer and someone asked hey how do you negotiate salary so that's a shout out to that viewer who asked that question on that particular episode because that's what we're going to cover here because sound negotiation I mean I think it's really fun a lot of people get stressed out about it but if you know what you're doing it's not that stressful so we're going to dive right

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into the salary negotiation because I think that's a more fun topic. And that's a topic that's not covered much in our space. I am not afraid to talk about money. I think having taboo as a money as a taboo subject is just, quite frankly,

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