<prompt> Human: Little bit of background. At my current position for about 2.5 years. Underpaid and have been wanting to leave for the past couple months. Ended up finding a job that I would LOVE that is essentially my dream job and a perfect next step in my career Im in the data analytics field. Well, I got my offer today.I make 69,565 where Im at now, but getting a 2.7 raise starting 1 March. The offer for the new job is 83,000, which is amazing. The health insurance is much better low premium, low deductible and my commute is cut in half at the new job. Id also get about 8 more days of PTO than my current job.The con is, I will have to walk away from about 9k of unvested money from company match in my 401k Im not fully vested at my current job until 3 years - which for me is October. However, I am vested fully at the new job from day 1 and have stock options as well.So my salary bump is awesome, but Im wondering if I should ask for more, or be happy with what Ive got? edit: thanks for the advice everyone! I ended up countering, and HR has been super fast in getting back to me. They couldnt flex on salary but I did secure a 2500 sign-on bonus!Assistant: Counter offer!People in your position junior, getting a big bump anyway, etc often think theres a risk to counter offering. Maybe youll piss them off, theyll pull the offer, theyll give someone else the job, etc.All of that is BS if you are in a skilled position and your employer wants to hire you. Theyve gone through months of searching, weeks of interviewing, they need the job done - theyre not going to lose you over 2k or 3k more. Ive personally never made a job offer without putting in a little wiggle room to go up. Ive never been offended that someone asked for more. Ive never held it against someone that they negotiated. In fact, Ive only ever been frustrated when someone didnt counter, because now I know Im paying them less than I could have and I have to go deal with that reality.What you want to avoid is being entitled about it, asking for too much, or dragging the process out. So heres my suggestion on how to handle it: - Say youve reviewed the offer and want to discuss comp- Say its an awesome opportunity, you want the job, you want to work there, and you want to make it work. But all things considered, its just slightly less than you would need to leave your job, especially when factoring in how close you are to vesting.- Youre already happy with the offer. So ask for a reasonable number. Like 2 or 3 higher. In this case, why not 86,000. Tell them if they can do that, you can start in 2 weeks and will give your notice today.- Theyll come back with either 86k great!, somewhere in the middle great! just accept the higher offer or 83k bummer, but remember, you were still happy anyway. The odds of this resulting in them pulling the offer or creating animosity are about zero. And youll end up with a little more money, which will compound itself when you start getting 2-3 annual bumps or 15 promotion bumps.Human: Thanks again for this advice - I sent them my counter offer and they couldnt flex with salary, but did give me a 2500 sign-on bonus! :  <response>: Congrats! Should only take you 6 months to make up for the unvested matching anyways, well worth it imo! 