2.5.1 How to know if you have been offered a low salary?
2.5.2 How to negotiate your salary?

2.5.1- How to know if you have been offered a low salary? You might establish comparisons with other colleagues or ex workmates, but on the following websites you will find some public salary surveys and comparisons.

• The Wall Street Journal Salary survey: http://www.careers.wsj.com/salaries/index.html 
• Business Week Salary survey: http://swz-businessweek.salary.com/salarywizard/layoutscripts/swzl_newsearch.asp 
• Job Star Central http://jobstar.org/tools/salary/index.cfm 
  Among other interesting information, Job Star Central has a section where you can find more than 300 salary surveys by profession from all kind of sources: newspapers, trade and professional associations, recruiters and employment companies. Web sources on strategy salary negotiation are also available in this site.
• The job hunters bible http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/research/salaries.shtml 
  This website also lists resources providing salary scales, surveys, etc.
• Informe CEINSA : remuneraciones España. (ed. 2003-2004)
  Osorio Fernández, Manuel
  Barcelona: CEINSA. Centro de Investigación Salarial, 2004
  Ask for it at the library counter desk
  This book provides information on Spanish salaries.

2.5.2- How to negotiate your salary?
Applicants who negotiate job offers receive salaries and benefits of significantly more value than those who do not. And the compensation package you negotiate today will affect all your future job offers.

The WetFeet insider guide to negotiating your salary and perks
2004 ed.
ebrary, Inc.
San Francisco, CA: WetFeet, Inc., c2003.
Available at ebrary: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ieselibrary/Doc?id=10048779 

This book will take you step-by-step through a negotiation process that will leave both you and your employer satisfied. You will learn, for example, how to build your bargaining power and stand out as the candidate for the job, how to present your case to get a better job and more money or how to negotiate other perks to increase your overall compensation.

Get Paid What You're Worth: The Expert Negotiator's Guide to Salary and Compensation
Author(s): Pinkley, Robin L. | Northcraft, Gregory B.
St Martins Pr - 3/1/2003

This book will give you the confidence to turn your strategic thinking into specific action thanks to a panel of negotiations experts and their decades of experience.