Chapter 13: Weigh Job and Salary Offers

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Once you have a job offer, you can use the Internet to learn to negotiate your salary and weigh the offer. For tips about negotiating your salary, you can consult Quintessential Careers: Salary Negotiation Tutorial.

You’ll also want to learn about the salary you can expect and how a salary (or salary offer) in one city compares to its counterpart in other cities:

From these sites, get specific information about salaries you can expect in various careers:

    Salary.com provides help in determining the value of a job offer or what you are worth on the job market, come to this site where a vast collection of salary reports on virtually every occupation is available. Free.

    SalaryExpert.com offers salaries, benefits, and cost-of-living information for 30,000 positions in more than 45,000 locations. Job-seekers can find accurate salary data -- the site even shows its sources for the information.

    JobStar: Profession-Specific Salary Surveys provides links to salary information on 50 professions as well as links to other occupational salary sites.

    Abbott, Langer & Associates: Compensation and Benefits Reports provides job-seekers with current pay rates for more than 300 job titles (in IT/MIS, marketing, accounting, engineering, human resources, consulting, manufacturing, nonprofit, legal, and other fields), as reported from more than 7,000 participating organizations. Basic summary information is free.

    WAGEWEB provides salary data for more than 150 positions.

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