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Nobody below is really mentioning how you do negotiation here... so I'll take a quick stab at it. If you want to negotiate, then you typically need to have other options. This includes the willingness to walk away from this job. Hear me out, it's not like you really need to 'risk' that, but you need to realize that on one side of the equation is that negotiation puts your offer very slightly at risk. It's very, very slight - because the amount of cost that they put through posting jobs, interviewing you, keeping recruiters on staff, investing the time of actual technical people on those teams to do the interview with you, then having a debrief meeting to decide that they want to hire you is worth money. If you basically state in a very polite manner, "Hey, I'm not going to take this job without $60k instead of $56k", they very well might just give it to you because it's not worth going through recruitment again. All roles have a salary range. For example, if they managed to get someone with more education than you that is willing to do the role, then maybe they can stretch the budget a little. After all, it only seems 'fair' that someone with a PhD is paid at least $X more than someone with just a bachelors, right? So, this leads to the actual negotiation: Ideally, you should have other job offers. Then, no matter which is actually higher or the highest, you can use the other offers to bid up the one you want. You just have to pretend that your other offers are more attractive. Talk about the benefits that are available from the other roles and ALWAYS talk in RANGES. Your salary is a fixed number, but the BENEFITS that a company give syou is hard to quantify. So you want to say "Well company B is giving me a total compensation package between $70-75k whereas your company is offering me a package between $60-65k. However I'm really interested in working at your company because of the stellar project opportunities and I find the team a better fit. If we could split the difference and bump things up to $67.5k, I'd feel really comfortable joining your company." If you do not have other offers, that's fine. Just 'ask' for reasonable things. WFH benefits? More days off? 'Better' company laptop? Just come up with good/reasonable reasons for why you want any or all of these things. The ultimate thing you can negotiate with is that you can* always walk away. If you keep that in your pocket, then you always have leverage. I have indeed heard of people successfully going, "Hey I really enjoyed meeting everyone and I would love to join the company, however the offer of $56k is just a little lower than I can work with given my financial obligations. Unfortunately if we aren't able to move that up to at least $60k, I'm going to continue to interview with these other companies I am recruiting with." [That is leverage in and of itself - companies HATE to hear that they are going to wait for you to finish interviewing at competitors and stuff like that]. Anyways, I just word vomited this and I hope that it is helpful. I'm a decade into my career now and 4 jobs down the road, so I've done a fair share of negotiating. More on reddit.com

Ask for the budget for the position, then indicate your asking net salary annually as a range. This is a nice trick so the recruiter doesn't realize how large it is off the bat, and if they can't meet the expectation, don't worry-keep the conversation open. End by asking if these expectations can be met, otherwise you can discuss other ways to meet it like sign on bonuses or increased non-taxable allowances, and indicate why (i.e. to support my master's degree pursuance, hard skills, performance in said position) Example: "My ideal asking salary lands at xxx,xxx annually, net. Could you clarify if these can be met by the company for X position? [Let them answer]." IF vague: "No worries. If the asking salary can't be met, I'd be glad to explore other options such as sign-on bonuses or increased allowances [in the form of gas, transpo, internet etc.]. Would that work?" Good luck OP, you got this! Source: I'm a recruiter. This would work on me. More on reddit.com

For someone that's brand new to having up to 2 years in, I'd likely place them from $55k to $75k. For a mid level data analyst (knowing more broadly used tools, communicating well, and doing projects end to end - including reporting), I'd likely place them from $75k to $105k, which has crossover with senior level. For senior level analysts, I'd say about $90k to $125k. For the very best, I would say $125k to $155k (and potentially more for the right people) is about right. More on reddit.com