Salary Negotiation with Fexingo: Compensation, Counter Offers, and Asking for More

Episode 4 of Salary Negotiation with Fexingo tackles the most common high-anxiety scenario: asking for more when you have zero leverage—no competing offer, no ultimatum, just a salary figure you know is too low. Lucas and Luna walk through the 2019 study from Columbia Business School that found candidates who simply asked for a justification-based raise, without any threat to leave, got an average...

In Episode 3 of Salary Negotiation with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a commonly overlooked part of compensation: the non-salary elements. They break down the hidden value in stock options, PTO, signing bonuses, and flexible hours. Using real examples from tech and finance, they show how one listener traded a $5,000 sign-on for a 10-day sabbatical, and how a marketing manager turned a 2% salary...

Most people treat an offer letter as a yes/no document. Lucas and Luna argue it is a negotiation document. This episode drills into a specific case: a marketing manager in Austin who received an offer for $92,000 base plus standard benefits. She used a two-step framework to counter for a $105,000 base, a signing bonus, and a remote-work stipend — and got all three. Lucas explains the 'three-reads...

In the debut episode of Salary Negotiation with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna break down a real negotiation that changed one server's life. The anchor: a 26-year-old waitress at a mid-tier Chicago steakhouse who was offered a 5% raise to $16.60 an hour. She countered with a researched, data-backed proposal for 23% — and got it. Lucas walks through the three-part structure she used: anchoring with market...