Biggest negotiation regret: When you work in labor, salary transparency is huge. There are usually scaled “steps” that correspond to your experience level and when I got my first labor job, I just took the step that was offered to me because I didn’t know I could negotiate that. At the time, I thought the salary was a lot of money, and I was just excited to be offered the job. But when I started working for the organization, I realized I had a lot more education and experience than a lot of my colleagues who started at a higher step, and I wish I had asked to be placed higher on the scale.
