A sourced compensation counterproposal brief

What you fill in

• Role and scope brief[role_scope]ExampleDirector of Customer Operations in Boston, managing 28 staff across three regions with turnaround ownership...
• Offered base salary[current_base]Example165000
• Preferred base salary[target_base]Example180000

How to use it

1. 1Open it in PromptVault. Find it in Career, or search for “A sourced compensation counterproposal brief”.
2. 2Fill in the 3 blanks. role and scope brief, offered base salary and preferred base salary — the only things the prompt cannot know.
3. 3Copy and paste it into ChatGPT. It also works with Notion AI, Perplexity and DeepSeek.

About this prompt

“A sourced compensation counterproposal brief” is a intermediate career prompt. For candidates preparing a bounded counter anchored in role scope, current evidence, and explicit tradeoffs. It is 155 words long and written to get a usable answer on the first message, in Notion AI, Perplexity and DeepSeek or any other chat assistant. Good for: salary negotiation, research, template, first draft and job search. Like every prompt in PromptVault, it was written and edited in-house, and it works offline once the app is installed.