Leaving Shire. Base salary question

[anonymous]

The best advice I can give is to not disclose your TRUE base salary of 88k. There is no way a new employer can verify this anyway. I guess they could ask for a pay stub but they never do. With your amount of experience, I would tell the new company that your current base salary is AT LEAST $100k. It would be very believable (88k is quite low) and they won’t even bat an eye. They should make you a haigher offer based on that amount. I would at least ask for $110k. This is how I have been able to get raises in this industry! Good luck!

I agree with this post. And I don't work for Shire (browsing this board because of the take over)
I am surprised at how low your salary is for being with the company 8 years and in speciality sales. I thought shire paid more.

I've been in the industry total of 5 years . And I'm in rare disease now. I know my salary is on the low end of rare disease, but I'm ok with it since I don't have the tenure. My base is around 105 and bonus at 45.

Good luck to you. And certainly ask for more than 100k. You've put enough time to get that.