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Answer 'what are your salary expectations?' without underselling

The form wants a number or the interviewer asks out of nowhere. Get an answer that keeps you in the running without pricing yourself too low.

Updated 17 Oct 2026

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Help me answer "what are your salary expectations?".

The job and area: [title, location, company size]
What the ad says about pay: [range, "competitive", nothing]
My current or last pay: [amount, optional]
What I'm hoping for: [amount or range]
Other things that matter: [e.g. hours, pension, holiday, hybrid]

Ask me up to 3 short questions first if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers.

Then:
1. How to research a fair range for this job (similar ads, and what to compare).
2. Three ways to answer in an interview: give a range, turn it back politely, or say what matters beyond salary.
3. A one-line answer for an application form box.
4. What to do if they push for a single number.

Leave the amounts for me to fill in. Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts, dates or results. UK English.

For current advertised pay for this job title in my area, use web search and name the page you used. If it doesn't search on its own, open View all tools and choose Search.

Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.

A short example

Fill the blanks, then paste. title, location, company size: a short note you already have. range, "competitive", nothing: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.

The prompt · Claude

Help me answer "what are your salary expectations?".

The job and area: [title, location, company size]
What the ad says about pay: [range, "competitive", nothing]
My current or last pay: [amount, optional]
What I'm hoping for: [amount or range]
Other things that matter: [e.g. hours, pension, holiday, hybrid]

Ask me up to 3 short questions first if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers.

Then:
1. How to research a fair range for this job (similar ads, and what to compare).
2. Three ways to answer in an interview: give a range, turn it back politely, or say what matters beyond salary.
3. A one-line answer for an application form box.
4. What to do if they push for a single number.

Leave the amounts for me to fill in. Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts, dates or results. UK English.

For current advertised pay for this job title in my area, use web search if you can and name the page. If you can't search, say what I should check myself.

Stay in this Claude chat. Do not use a connector, and do not open a project that already holds someone else's files.

A short example

Fill the blanks, then paste. title, location, company size: a short note you already have. range, "competitive", nothing: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.

You type the job, your current pay and what you're hoping for.

The assistant asks where the job is advertised and what the ad says about pay.

You get a range to research, three ways to answer and a line for application forms.

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The form wants a number or the interviewer asks out of nowhere. Get an answer that keeps you in the running without pricing yourself too low.

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