For a typical employee, taking the first offer is almost always bad business. But when they’re offered a job, more than half of employees are doing it anyway.
Fifty-four percent of professionals recently surveyed by Glassdoor said they didn’t negotiate in their most recent salary conversation. While the percentages varied among generation and industry, men and women both negotiated the same amount—46%—among the nearly 6,700 respondents. That may be surprising considering men have historically negotiated more, and women who do negotiate their offered salary are still much more likely than men to be rebuffed, per Pew Research Center data.
