Salary Negotiation Pack for Nigerian Professionals

The person who knows their number wins the negotiation. Most candidates don't.

This pack is the full Nigerian salary negotiation playbook, built on compiled market data — not generic advice. It walks you through every moment of the conversation, in order:

- The real ranges: what your profession actually pays in 2026, and how to read low / median / high before you quote anything

- The "expected salary" question: the band formula, word-for-word scripts for interviews and application forms, and how to handle "what do you currently earn?"

- The whole package: 13th month, HMO for dependants, fuel allowance, confirmation uplifts — the items Nigerian employers can still move when the base band is fixed

- The offer: how to take 48 hours, counter once cleanly, and never resign before the signed offer

- Email templates: counter, follow-up, acceptance and decline, ready to adapt

- The take-home worksheet: convert any gross offer to true monthly net under the 2026 Nigeria Tax Act bands, with worked examples — because a bigger gross can be a smaller salary

- Checklists for before you apply, before the offer call, and before you sign

- Notes by sector and city: banks, tech, health, NYSC first roles, Lagos vs Abuja vs Port Harcourt

Includes free companion calculators and salary data at naijacalc.ng.

September 2026 edition. A negotiation guide, not legal or tax advice.