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How do you handle the question, “What are your salary requirements/expectations?”

As the title states, how do you guys respond to this question? It aggravates me to see “we offer a competitive salary” in the job description, and pisses me off even more to then be asked what my salary expectations are. Since I am in dire need of a position in my field that has a minimum monthly salary (I'm a third-country national in Europe), I usually bend over backwards and give them the minimum that I'm legally required to earn in hopes that I'm offered something before I go absolutely broke. I am curious how the rest of you, perhaps especially those of you secure in your field with experience or greater leverage, tackle this bullshit?


As the title states, how do you guys respond to this question? It aggravates me to see “we offer a competitive salary” in the job description, and pisses me off even more to then be asked what my salary expectations are. Since I am in dire need of a position in my field that has a minimum monthly salary (I'm a third-country national in Europe), I usually bend over backwards and give them the minimum that I'm legally required to earn in hopes that I'm offered something before I go absolutely broke.

I am curious how the rest of you, perhaps especially those of you secure in your field with experience or greater leverage, tackle this bullshit?

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