<prompt> Human: So Im 2 and a half years out of college, living in NYC, and currently make 75k. I like my job, but its time to move on for a better opportunity. I interviewed with a startup 5-10 full-time employees and things went well - received my formal job offer via email today. I was offered the position of Operations Manager...the salary offered was 55k. This seems incredibly low to me can correct me if Im wrong, but Googling the average salary for the position and Im seeing 90-100k nationwide considering the position and then the NYC factor, not to mention that I would have a lot of responsibility in this role across many functions just with there being so few employees. Theres also no guarantee on healthcare as of yet - ie. they say they expect to provide it by November I believe them, but its still two months without. They did offer me stock options which is nice considering how I am one of the first employees. I know this company closed a big round of funding very recently and has money, so its not like theyre a nonprofit or something in terms of this lowball offer. I really am very interested in the company and this potential new role, but I cant accept something so low - it would even hurt me in regards to lifestyle costs...things like rent - that I base off my current salary. What is the best way to negotiate this?  <response>: I think this may be a miscommunication around the title. If youre looking at Operations Manager on Glassdoor and that entails jobs where someone is at a Fortune 500 company managing 5-10 Operations people, maybe they get paid 90-100k.My bet would be that this position is covering Operations for the whole 5-10 person company, and you have no one below you. The manager in the title means nothing. If thats the case, 55k is probably market rate.People ITT are saying to ask for 100k. You can do that but youll never get it. No sane business is offering 55k for a job theyd be willing to pay 100k for. Id tell them that 55k is way low, that you currently make 75k, and that they need to do better. Then see how well you can do.Also - engineers make way more than Operations. Theyre harder to find. Simple supply and demand, nothing personal about it.Source: Ive run a startup or two in my day 