Estimate your market value

What you’ll accomplish in this lesson

You will estimate your market value using a simple three-step process. Before you ask for your raise, it’s important to have a specific goal in mind. To set that goal—your target salary—you need to know your market value.

Your market value will give you a baseline that you can adjust to set your target salary in the next lesson.

Action items

• Download the Get Your Next Raise Market Value Estimation worksheet
• Use the worksheet to estimate your market value
• Record your market value estimate in the Get Your Next Raise worksheet

Materials

• Get Your Next Raise Market Value Estimation worksheet (download)
• How to Estimate Your Market Value—Read the chapter from Fearless Salary Negotiation

References

• PayScale.com
• Salary.com
• Glassdoor.com
• levels.fyi
• Blind