Got an offer and need to respond with a counter, but every "is this a good salary" calculation I try just ends up converting the number back to my home currency, which everyone tells me is the wrong way to think about it. What actually worked for people here?
Following, offer arrives next week and I’m taking notes from this whole thread.
Did anyone find local salary transparency laws or sites actually gave reliable numbers, or were they mostly noise?
Hiroshi — found one government-adjacent salary survey site that was more reliable than the generic aggregator sites, though the numbers still needed some interpreting.
same conversion-to-home-currency trap as everyone else, story of my life this week
From further down the road: whatever number felt scary to ask for at the time turned out completely reasonable in hindsight. Worth pushing a bit further than feels comfortable.
Adding all of this to my prep notes before my own negotiation call, thank you all.