Negotiating a salary is a sensitive issue. You may really want the job, but you also want to improve the salary of your previous position. If you negotiate the salary you are in danger of losing the position you are applying for, or even losing your existing job. Here are five tips for a good salary negotiation:

1. Base your salary negotiation on the Market Value. To do this look up the salary surveys in the position of your job; ask people in the same employment position; search websites; trade journals; career service; speak to recruitment agencies.

2. When asked in an interview what salary you are looking to achieve, give the market value.

3. Or give the range in which the figure is 10 percent above your current salary.

4. In an interview, make sure that salary negotiations are left to the end of the discussion. If it is approached to quickly, the employer will not realize your worth (what your will give to the company in terms of skills, etc) and your ability to profit their company.

5. If this subject is brought up by the employer early on in the discussion, try to delay it by saying that the salary is negotiable.

In effect you are a product that the company wants to invest in. You need to make sure that they are aware of the revenue or productivity you will achieve for them, in order to make their company more successful.

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