Corporate Casual

[russotto]

Give 'em a range. At the low end, put the highest you think they'd possibly accept, which will hopefully be considerably higher than the lowest you'd accept.

The thing is that if you give a salary way too high or way too low, they won't accept you. But if you give an acceptable salary lower than the top they'd be willing to pay, that's what you'll be offered if you take the job; you've left money on the table. If you're a little too high, they can negotiate you down.

(not that I really know... last job I just blue-skied it and got the number I asked for, which I thought was too high. But then the dot-com bust hit and the salary freeze went on and I haven't had a raise since, so now I'm underpaid)