How to read an offer in full, place yourself on the ladder with sourced data, and negotiate the number with scripts that work.
The free salary guide gives you the map: national ranges and the factors that move the number. This playbook is the version you use when you have a real offer in hand. Four parts:
1. How to read an offer in full: base, bonus, and equity, with worked comparisons and a fill-in equity worksheet (strike price, 409A, dilution, cliff, exercise window, and the question that matters: does the offer still work if the equity is worth zero)
2. Where you sit by stage and market: compensation tables built from five sourced datasets, stage by stage from bootstrapped to public, and why base flattens past Series C while the negotiation moves to variable pay
3. A scored leveling self-assessment: eight dimensions that place you at Level 1, 2, or 3 by scope rather than title, each with an indicative base band. If your score and the offer's implied level disagree, you have found your negotiation.
4. The negotiation itself: four moves, six word-for-word scripts (deferring the number, countering base, pivoting when base is capped, pushing on equity terms, buying time, holding your floor), and four worked scenarios including competing offers and the exploding 24-hour offer
Every compensation figure is cited with its source and year, and the playbook tells you to verify before you cite, because numbers move.
Format: designed PDF, instant download. 30-day money-back guarantee: full refund within 30 days, no justification required.
How to read an offer in full, place yourself on the ladder with sourced data, and negotiate the number with scripts that work.
The free salary guide gives you the map: national ranges and the factors that move the number. This playbook is the version you use when you have a real offer in hand. Four parts:
1. How to read an offer in full: base, bonus, and equity, with worked comparisons and a fill-in equity worksheet (strike price, 409A, dilution, cliff, exercise window, and the question that matters: does the offer still work if the equity is worth zero)
2. Where you sit by stage and market: compensation tables built from five sourced datasets, stage by stage from bootstrapped to public, and why base flattens past Series C while the negotiation moves to variable pay
3. A scored leveling self-assessment: eight dimensions that place you at Level 1, 2, or 3 by scope rather than title, each with an indicative base band. If your score and the offer's implied level disagree, you have found your negotiation.
4. The negotiation itself: four moves, six word-for-word scripts (deferring the number, countering base, pivoting when base is capped, pushing on equity terms, buying time, holding your floor), and four worked scenarios including competing offers and the exploding 24-hour offer
Every compensation figure is cited with its source and year, and the playbook tells you to verify before you cite, because numbers move.
Format: designed PDF, instant download. 30-day money-back guarantee: full refund within 30 days, no justification required.
