<prompt> Human: This company does background checks, and as such knows the salary at my current job. They use this salary to set a cap on how much more they are willing to pay me e.g. a certain percentage or fixed increase, which they are not revealing to me.My ask was 2k below their advertised salary, but they are not accepting my request based on the resulting salary increase. seems odd to me, either the position has a market salary of X or it does not...Anyway, after doing exhaustive conservative-in-their-favor comparisons, what they are offering is only a marginal increase when you factor in the hard monetary value of the benefits current job has much better benefits. Its a small net decrease when you factor in potential value of the benefits current job has up to 9 bonus, new job offers 0 bonus. Current jobs health insurance has significantly lower out of pocket costs 0 co-insurance. This means not only does the new company have higher out of pocket limit, but because it has 10 co-insurance, you are far more likely to end up hitting that limit.My leverage is that Im 100 willing to decline the offer and stay at my current job. Just wondering if you guys had any negotiating strategiestips I can use to massage myself a better offer and possibly breathe more life into this opportunity.  <response>: This would be a red flag for me. Any company that hurts their own ability to bid for labor by setting a cap based on your last salary just isnt interested in hiring the best people.The best thing you can do is walk and show them what the result of that kind of system is. 