How to Negotiate Salary Compensation & Advocate for Yourself at Work | Zafreen Farishta

Have you ever wondered how to do salary negotiation? How much is too much? What you should not say in a salary negotiation? This week’s guest is a salary negotiation coach (and my sister!) Zafreen Farishta.

In addition to being a salary negotiation consultant, Zafreen is a public health start-up professional who started The Pay We Deserve. After successfully undertaking numerous salary negotiations herself and helping others with salary negotiation best practices, she’s now making her services more widely available.

Through The Pay We Deserve, Zafreen helps first generation WOC strategically negotiate their salaries. She supports mindset as well as actual tactics to ensure you get the pay you deserve.

Zafreen graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and now lives in Chicago with her husband and pup.

Questions we discuss in this episode include:

  • What are salary negotiation errors?
  • Can salary negotiation backfire?
  • What should you not say in a salary negotiation?
  • How to phrase salary negotiation?
  • Why salary negotiation is important?
  • How to negotiate salary compensation?
  • What to do when negotiating salary?

For a custom script to support your salary negotiation, book a free intro call with Zafreen by emailing her at Zafreen@thepaywedserve.com or filling out a contact form on her website at thepaywedeserve.com to learn more about her signature offerings:

  1. “What if my boss says…?”
  2. 4 Steps Forward, No Steps Back

Website: thepaywedeserve.com
Instagram: @thepaywedeserve
Email: Zafreen@ThePayWeDeserve.com

Past episode(s) mentioned in this episode: Building Wealth & Financial Wellness With Saijal Patel


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