The Salary Negotiation Kit for an Internal Raise with No Outside Offer
DolceDrago 338 — a skill for asking your own employer, without a card to play
Variant of Nº036 — The Salary Negotiation Kit
What it is
Prepares the raise conversation for the person with no competing offer and no intention of leaving. The mother's strongest lever is gone, so this kit builds the two that remain: timing inside the employer's budget cycle, and a written case that survives being forwarded to people who never saw the work. Maps the calendar and the decision chain, sets the numbers against the internal band, and triages the three kinds of no — budget, case, authority.
What you receive
an internal raise kit — the pay calendar and decision chain mapped, the three numbers set against the internal band, the one-page memo written for the second reader, the meeting script, and the three answers to the three kinds of no
Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.
Supported models
- Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
- ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
- Gemini
- any capable chat model
People reach for it when
- “how to ask for a raise without another job offer”
- “when to ask for a pay rise before the budget round”
- “raise request memo to send my manager”
- “my boss says there is no budget what do I say”
- “my job has grown but my salary has not”
Record
lineage: variant · parent 036
gates passed: demand-evidence · function-fit · beats-the-blank-page
status: IN THE COLLECTION
Sale-time bench runs and the fix-or-refund log attach to this record when the payment room opens.
In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.
Join the house — be written to when sales openBack to the collectionLicense
Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.