For those of you that have applied to jobs that have a posted salary under your desired salary range - I have a question.

While it’s rare, I’ve had candidates that apply, we go through 2-3 interviews, I send an offer (the particular offer that kicked off this post was at the top of our posted salary range) and the candidate came back asking for a salary roughly $5k more than the highest posted salary on the job.

I truly don’t understand this action and wonder why this person would even apply to a job, go through interviews, etc when the salary was clearly stated and then try and negotiate higher than the posted salary.

Appreciate your opinion!