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Company cut variable bonus to 0.5 month, is negotiating pointless?
Realistically once bonus letters are out the pool is already spent, so pushing this cycle rarely changes your number. What worked for me was pivoting the conversation to base salary increment instead, since that's recurring and compounds. Got a 6% bump on base which over time beats a one-off bonus argument. Aim there.
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