Negotiating Salary - Job Offer

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I would also add, never take a counter-offer from your current emloyer. If it is time to leave, more money isn't going to fix it. Every single person I know that took a counter-offer, left anyway and they were miserable because it was time to go and the money doesn't make up for it.....

Very true, plus they will then view you as having one foot out the door for the rest of your time there, until the day if/when you retire..