If you asked for a salary of £75k

[DelilahDingleberry]

If you asked for a salary of £75k and you were told that it “won’t be exactly what was proposed but it wouldn’t be a million miles away”, how much would you expect to be offered?

Depends on your experience, what colleagues of same experience and qualifications are on - but those words I'd expect £70+

Should start with a 7. If it’s less than £70k you’re approaching 10% or more away from £75k which I don’t think equates to ‘not a million miles’ away.

Ok happy to dream about a salary of 75k...70k would be good or 68k with benefits like working from home days, negotiating hours, or something.

£70k minimum would class as ‘not a million miles away’ in my mind

No lower than 70k.

Yup no lower than £70, with an explanation of when salary raises happen and when I would hit £75 (no “performance based” waffle)

At least 70, & a polite question when 75 will be achieved..

I’d think around the £70k mark.

Wow, what job do you do?

Depends. If you are currently on £65k I’d expect £71k+. If you are on £20k then anything over £55k would be close.

I feel like a company that can afford 70k for the right person can afford 75k - seems a bit petty at that level.

My DH applied for a job advertised at 35k, asked for 42 I think and settled on 38.

£70K

Anything from £65k upwards

£65k plus I think

I would respond by asking for clarification. You can't accept something that's vague.

73k

£65k upwards... but I’d try and negotiate upwards to around £70k.

For heaven's sake- is there a reason for asking?

£70k

70 plus, or some kind of package of bonus or something to get you to low 70s

@spotcheck - impatiently waiting for a formal offer!

65K and a mediocre benefits package which they claim is excellent and bumps the value up.

It depends also what you are on now. Like if you are on £50k asking for £75k or on £65k asking for £75k, would expect it to be at least 10% higher than what on now unless you were made redundant
This makes absolutely no sense at all.

Close to 10% below is absolutely too far away. But I’d assume their offer was the start of negotiations.

They'll try and fob you off with package. Decide in advance which ones are good/relevant to you now (car allowance etc)