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Do you have any wiggle room on negotiating the compensation?
I’d tell them that the career advancement opportunities and company seem compelling, but total compensation isn’t great given your household’s medical expenses and their insurance plan. I’d propose a bump in base pay and give them a number that you think would be reasonable.
Best advice here. An offer is just that, an offer. Not sure how negotiating benefits would work, never known that to be done, kinda written in stone at OP's level. (Worked IT for a payroll firm, benefit exceptions just don't happen, it's a nightmare for several reasons.) But OP should ask for more pay to offset, that's 100% doable.
For you young folk who may not have experience: What they say they'll pay is the bottom. If you take it, good for them. Hit 'em higher, higher than you expect. If they're truly interested, they'll meet you in the middle.
I'm such a dumbass, HR was literally shaken giving me an offer ($70K), double what I had been making at my then current job. As in, worried I'd be offended. I played it off like, "That should work to start. Let's see where it goes from there." While my heart was slamming...
Fuck me. I should have aimed WAY higher! "That's in the zone, but I understand my peers with the same experience can expect $85-90K." Promise I would have scored $80K, easy. 4-years later and I just now topped that figure.
This is normal life, nothing to be stressed about. Ask for the damned money. It's expected. No one's handing $ out just because you're a great person.
LOL, my new boss gets me laughing every week. We went from a cost center to dragging in a couple of million a year. Know why? He tells customers, and our management, and the CEO, to get fucking bent. "That's not our company's mission, nor is it my team's job. If $customer wants it, $customer will sign a contract agreeing to pay $X. If you will not do this, you will expand my team. And here's what that will cost..." The sales team is torqued off that us lowly techs are pulling more than them.
Last week I went to deploy a replacement server for free, standard stuff. Boss: "No. Do not send that. Let me talk to $customer's account manager." Now it's $800 to $customer. And guess who will be arguing more money for the team (and me) next go round? Guess who gets to put, "Made company $X, and saved company $Y on the following initiatives..." Dolla dolla bill y'all.
tl;dr: Ask for the fucking money.
First lesson in business: Don’t mess with the fucking money.
Anecdotal experience alert: I work with a guy that is one of the leading sales operators in my field. I’ve been in another somewhat related field for 20+ years but didn’t really have to work on my sales techniques. This guy is a genius in simplicity. His basic tip is screw all the MBA metrics. When you’re dealing with people you need to make connections. Camp out and get to know them, their family, and their likes/hobbies. The craziest sales always have the same thing in common, not talking about whatever you’re selling. People buy when they like you. That builds trust and confidence. That’s it. Super simple but it’s why my small branch is carrying the entire state at the moment. Whenever my sales guys call the first question we ask is, that’s cool but what did you learn about the customer? They’re starting to get what we mean and learning things about people and their sales and 5 star reviews have skyrocketed.