salary-negotiation-prep

salary-negotiation-prep is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Natsummerance/readMD. It costs 21 tokens per session (2,613 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of salary-negotiation-prep, MIT.

A job-offer preparation guide for researching pay and planning a response to salary or compensation discussions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports market-rate research, total-compensation calculations, negotiation strategies, counter-offer scripts, and identifying leverage.
Why use it?
It helps compare the full offer and prepare a reasoned counteroffer instead of focusing only on base salary.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit It supports market-rate research, total-compensation calculations, negotiation strategies, counter-offer scripts, and identifying leverage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/natsummerance/readmd/salary-negotiation-prep
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Natsummerance/readMD --skill salary-negotiation-prep
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Natsummerance/readMD

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,613 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00021 $0.02613
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.01045
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00523
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00261

Measured 2mo ago against content hash efac612f8ab5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

salary-negotiation-prep scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to salary-negotiation-prep — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

assets/upstream/paramchoudhary-ResumeSkills/74ae19e7c62b0516d1c298328e5544976c12da5d/skills/salary-negotiation-prep/SKILL.md · 379 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 379 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Salary Negotiation Prep

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user wants to:

  • Negotiate a job offer or salary
  • Research market rates for their role
  • Create a counter-offer strategy
  • Understand total compensation packages
  • Mentions: "salary negotiation", "negotiate offer", "counter offer", "compensation", "how much should I ask for"

Core Capabilities

  • Research and validate market compensation
  • Build negotiation strategy and scripts
  • Calculate total compensation (not just base salary)
  • Prepare counter-offer responses
  • Identify negotiation leverage points
  • Navigate difficult salary conversations

The Negotiation Mindset

Key Principles:

  1. Negotiation is expected - companies budget for it
  2. 84% of employers expect candidates to negotiate
  3. Not negotiating leaves $500K-$1M on the table over a career
  4. The goal is win-win, not adversarial

What You're Really Negotiating:

  • Base salary
  • Signing bonus
  • Annual bonus/commission
  • Equity (stock options, RSUs)
  • Benefits (401k match, insurance)
  • Perks (vacation, remote work, professional development)
  • Start date
  • Title

Research Phase

Step 1: Determine Market Rate

Sources to Check:

  • Levels.fyi (best for tech)
  • Glassdoor (general, take with grain of salt)
  • LinkedIn Salary
  • Blind (anonymous reports)
  • PayScale
  • Salary.com
  • H1B salary data (publicly available)

Build a Range:

Low (25th percentile): $XXX,XXX
Target (50th percentile): $XXX,XXX  
High (75th percentile): $XXX,XXX
Stretch (90th percentile): $XXX,XXX

Step 2: Know Your Value

Factors That Increase Your Worth:

  • Years of relevant experience
  • Specialized/rare skills
  • Track record of results
  • In-demand certifications
  • Current competing offers
  • Referral from employee
  • Market demand in your field

Factors That May Limit:

  • Entry level or career change
  • Less experience than ideal candidate
  • Gaps in required skills
  • Location arbitrage (lower cost of living)

Step 3: Calculate Total Compensation

Read the full file on GitHub · 379 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 379 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A efac612f8ab5

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salary-negotiation-prep is a skill published in the GitHub repository Natsummerance/readMD (26 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 2,613 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to salary-negotiation-prep, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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