Salary Negotiation Brief
Your Salary Negotiation Brief: your market percentile, pay benchmarks across nearby metros, a counter-offer script with your actual numbers, and the take-home math for the raise you are asking. $19 one-time, generated instantly from BLS and BEA data. Nothing you enter is stored.
Know exactly what to ask for
Your Salary Negotiation Brief: $19, one-time. Your market position (percentile), pay benchmarks across nearby metros, a counter-offer script with your actual numbers, and the take-home math for the raise you are asking. Generated instantly from BLS + BEA data; nothing you enter is stored.
- Your market position: the percentile your salary sits at for your job and metro
- The full pay ladder: 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentile wages
- Nearby metro benchmarks: median pay and local cost index around you
- A counter-offer script with your numbers interpolated, ready to adapt
- Take-home math: what the raise actually pays after 2026 federal, FICA and state tax
Salary Negotiation Brief · $19 one-time
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Enter the license key from your purchase email, pick your job and metro, and the Brief renders on this page. Your entries are sent once to generate the Brief and are not stored.
Why a brief beats a salary number
Walking into a negotiation with a single number (“Glassdoor says $95k”) is easy to wave away. Walking in with your percentile, the metro pay ladder and the after-tax delta is much harder to argue with, because every figure is a government statistic with a named source.
The Brief puts that in one page you can rehearse from:
- Your market position, stated as a percentile for your exact job and metro
- The pay ladder (25th, 50th, 75th, 90th) so your ask has a ceiling, not just a floor
- Median pay and cost index in nearby metros, so a “but this market” objection meets a dollar figure
- A counter-offer script with your numbers already in it
- The take-home math, because a raise is negotiated in gross but lived in net
The 60-second method
Open with your percentile and the median, anchor at the 75th percentile if you sit at or below the median, and close on the take-home delta so the conversation stays on real dollars. The script in the Brief is built in exactly that order.
Start free if you only want the percentile: the salary percentile checker shows your market position at no cost, and the Brief adds the full negotiation package around it.
Frequently Asked Questions
A one-page document generated from your job, metro and salary: your market position as a BLS wage percentile, the 25th/50th/75th/90th percentile pay ladder for your role, median pay and cost index across nearby metros, a counter-offer script with your numbers filled in, and the take-home pay math for the raise you are asking (federal + FICA + state, 2026 rules).
Instantly, from the same data engine that powers this site's calculators: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics for wage percentiles, BEA Regional Price Parities for metro comparisons, and the 2026 IRS/SSA tax engine for the take-home math. Nothing you enter is stored; the brief is rendered in your browser and prints or saves as PDF.
Checkout returns a license key by email. Enter the key in the redemption form on this page, pick your job and metro, and the Brief renders immediately. One key, one brief; your numbers stay on your device.
No. It is a data document: where your pay sits in the market for your role and metro, and the arithmetic of a counter-offer. Negotiation decisions are yours. The underlying wage and tax figures are official government statistics, documented on our methodology page.