Know Your Number: The Hourly Rate to Set Before You Sign

Most NPs walk into a job offer asking the wrong question. Is this a good salary? What does the market pay around here?

Neither of those tells you whether you can actually say yes to this job.

The number that protects you is the one almost no one calculates: the lowest rate you can accept before the job starts costing you more than it pays. Call it your number.

This post shows you how to find that number, and how to test any offer against the hours you will really work, so you can tell when a salary that looks fine is a pay cut wearing a nice outfit.

Your number is the rate you need. The market rate is the rate other people accepted.