negotiating offers

[pharm00123]

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I received an offer from a big chain earlier this week. I have been interning at this company during pharm school for the past 2.5 years at another state. I was wondering if I have any shot at negotiating the offer? Honestly, I am not even sure how to bring that up with the pharm supervisor. What do you say and how likely do they negotiate higher salary?? I am not sure if this is considered a saturated area or if they are in need of rph's

 

[Old Timer]

I received an offer from a big chain earlier this week. I have been interning at this company during pharm school for the past 2.5 years at another state. I was wondering if I have any shot at negotiating the offer? Honestly, I am not even sure how to bring that up with the pharm supervisor. What do you say and how likely do they negotiate higher salary?? I am not sure if this is considered a saturated area or if they are in need of rph's

The words you are looking for are THANK YOU for the offer. Other than that you will just negotiate yourself out of a job.....

 

[confettiflyer]

I negotiated up (not in retail though), but in general you should have a reason you're negotiating up aside from just wanting more. If the offer is below market or you bring something unique to the table, feel free to respectfully counter.

You said yourself you don't know if it's a saturated or hard to fill area...you definitely need to do more research before pulling the trigger on negotiating, or like Old Timer said, you'll just negotiate yourself out of a job.

 

[xiphoid2010]

+1 on what confetti said. Do your homework, have good justifications, and do it professionally (don't haggle).

 

[bobanderson214]

Unless you're in a highly undesirable area where they're having issues filling positions, you have no room for negotiation. They would just as rather revoke your offer and give it to someone who's willing to take what they give.

 

[Sparda29]

You can negotiate if you have leverage (or already have a job).

I was offered a position at another hospital recently, but it was for an overnight shift. I negotiated but I could only get them to come up from $109k to $118k. The # I needed was $125-127k. Reason being, I currently make $102k at my full-time job. My current commute is less than 1 mile. I leave my house at 255PM and I'm at work at 259PM.

To go into Manhattan for this position, I'd have to drive about 26 miles (more mileage on my car, and more money on gasoline), pay tolls for the bridges, and pay for parking at a garage, or risk getting a parking ticket on the street. Or I'd have to get an apartment in that area of Manhattan which means at least $1500/month for a studio.

Plus the new hospital wasn't a union hospital and you had to pay more for health insurance and less vacation/sick time.

 

[StellargalS]

The clinical people are diverse.
Retail is retail. The cheapest wo/man with the cleanest deck and the least wreckage gets to work.
That hurts my heart. I wish it wasn't so.

Can you show them the money? Few of us can. Why because we lack the data to diversify ourselves.
I bet it is possible but at what cost? When I graduated my bro was so excited he told his friends "dood
my sister practically won the lottery. She gets a $1000.00 a week for life." (1996) He was sweet but wrong.

You have to find your bottom line. Mine is $55 and I have not had to dip there yet but I am waaaaaaaaaaay underemployed.
I have 15 + years experience = fast robot with professional hang ups. They don't care how fast I am. They won't let me in because
they know my jaw would drop. I can count on my two hands the number of errors in my career. I hear it's a little different now.
That hurts my heart too.
Good luck.