How To Know If A Job Offer Is Fair

How do I know if a job offer is fair?

You'll know if a job offer is fair if it meets your definition of what is reasonable. If you are offered a salary that you consider to be fair and reflect what you are honestly worth, that's a very good indicator. If the benefits that are being offered to you are fair, again, that's your subjective assessment, everybody's opinion of what is fair is going to be different, and certainly it depends a lot on what your expectations are. So, if you go into an interview expecting a 1% stock option and 1% health care insurance and those are not offered to you, you may think it's not fair; however to someone else it certainly may be fair. What you can do is check various websites and find out what the going salaries and benefits at different companies in different regions around the country are, and that will give you a good idea of what the fair, going rate is and what the market is bearing in your particular industry.