Pourcentage de personnes qui regrettent ensuite chaque choix. Les barres et le registre complet s’affichent ci-dessous.
Carrière
Dernière révision 2026-04-26
Qualité des preuves 4.0/5
Score d’évaluation en huit dimensions selon la
grille de qualité
. Chaque dimension notée de 1 à 5.
D1 Vérification des sources
3/5
D2 Autorité et indépendance des sources
4/5
D3 Précision du taux de regret
3/5
D4 Comparabilité des sources
4/5
D5 Motif de Gilovich
5/5
D6 Qualité de la prose
5/5
D7 Complétude des réserves
4/5
D8 Qualité de l’échantillon
4/5
Moyenne4.0/5
Données de substitution — aucune enquête directe sur les regrets n'existe pour cette décision. Les taux sont dérivés des scores de satisfaction et des obstacles d'accès plutôt que de questions portant directement sur les regrets. Voir les mises en garde ci-dessous.
Regret d'action
Négocier son salaire
22%
aucune enquête directe sur le regret ; 22% des négociateurs n'ont pas obtenu de meilleure offre (approximation de la borne supérieure — 78% ont finalement obtenu une meilleure offre)
Travailleurs américains ayant négocié, panel en ligne
rétrospective, pas de calendrier fixe
Regret d'inaction
Accepter sans négocier
27%
27% n'ont pas négocié et regrettent aujourd'hui de ne pas l'avoir fait
Travailleurs américains, panel en ligne
rétrospective, pas de calendrier fixe
% regrettent ce choix
Négocier son salaireAccepter sans négocier
22%27%
inaction dominates — L'inaction domine — la plupart regrettent de ne pas avoir agi.
Décisions associées
Décisions sémantiquement similaires — même terrain, compromis différents.
A 2024–2025 Resume Genius survey of 1,000 US workers found that 27%
didn’t negotiate and now wish they had — the cleanest inaction-regret
group in its four-part breakdown. (A widely cited 57% headline figure
covers “some regret about how they approached” negotiation, but it
bundles the 30% who regret their approach yet felt it was right at the
time, many of whom did negotiate, so it overstates pure inaction regret.)
On the action side there is no direct regret survey: among those who
negotiated, 78% say they ended up with a better offer and 22% did not,
so the 0.22 action rate is a proxy upper bound, not a measured regret
figure. The remaining tilt toward inaction is modest but directionally
consistent with Gilovich and Medvec’s inaction-dominance pattern.
Separately, a Fidelity Investments study of 1,524 workers found that 85%
of those who counteroffered got at least some of what they asked for,
suggesting the fear of negotiating is disproportionate to the actual
downside risk.
The generational breakdown complicates any simple “youth regret inaction
more” reading. Pew Research found that most US workers accepted their
initial offer without any negotiation attempt — only 32% of men and 28%
of women said they asked for higher pay. Resume Genius, meanwhile, found
that younger workers negotiate more, not less: 55% of Gen Z counter an
offer versus 42% of Baby Boomers. Negotiating more often, though, does
not automatically mean regretting less about how the conversation
went: the same survey’s approach-regret category — the 30% who regret
their approach but felt it was right at the time — is, by construction,
drawn from people who did negotiate. That is not the same as the clean
inaction regret this entry measures; it is exactly the kind of
handling-regret the 27% figure deliberately excludes.
The main caveat is measurement asymmetry. The inaction figure is
restricted to the clean 27% who “didn’t negotiate and now wish they
had,” rather than the headline 57% that mixes in approach-regret from
people who did negotiate. The action rate has no direct survey behind it
at all — it is proxied by the 22% of negotiators who did not end up with
a better offer, which is an upper bound, since not getting more is not
the same as regretting the attempt. The Fidelity study’s 85% “success”
rate counts any partial win, which may still have left the negotiator
feeling undercompensated. The direction holds, but with
the inaction figure restricted to the clean group the gap is modest and
the rates should be read as approximate.
Sources : action
Registre des sources
Chaque chiffre ci-dessous correspond à ce que la source a rapporté, avec la citation textuelle sur laquelle nous nous sommes appuyés et la méthode de calcul. Cliquez sur un lien pour vérifier directement.
Of workers who negotiated, 78% say they ended up with a better offer; 22% did not receive a better offer (the survey asks no direct 'do you regret negotiating?' question)
Extrait
“"Of workers who negotiated, nearly 8 in 10 of them (78%) say they ended up with a better offer."
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Données source de
2025-03-04
Consulté le
2026-06-30
Calcul
Resume Genius survey of 1,000 US workers, launched November 2024, analyzed February–March 2025. The survey contains no direct "do you regret having negotiated?" item, so no measured action- regret figure exists. Among workers who negotiated, 78% say they ended up with a better offer and 22% did not. The 0.22 action-side rate is a proxy: the share of negotiators whose negotiation did not yield a better offer (an upper bound — not receiving a better offer is not the same as regretting the attempt). proxy_only is set on this entry to disclose that no direct regret-framed action survey exists.
[2]CNBC / Fidelity Investments — Negotiating a job offer works: 85% of Americans who counteroffered were successful↗ 1 other entry
Source de référence
85% of Americans who counteroffered on salary or benefits got at least some of what they asked for
Extrait
“"85% of Americans — and 87% of professionals ages 25 to 35 — who countered on salary, other compensation or benefits, or both pay and other compensation and benefits got at least some of what they asked for."
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Données source de
2022-05-13
Consulté le
2026-04-26
Calcul
Fidelity Investments / Engine Insights survey of 1,524 US adults ages 25–70 working full- or part-time, conducted March 8–14, 2022. The 85% success rate corroborates the low action-regret finding: most counteroffers yield a positive outcome.
Sources : inaction
Registre des sources
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1/2 sources vérifiées de manière indépendante, mot pour mot, par rapport à la source citée
27% of US workers didn't negotiate and now wish they had (the clean inaction-regret figure within the survey's four-part breakdown)
Extrait
“"Here's how the full breakdown looked: 30% regret their approach but felt it was the right decision at the time; 29% didn't negotiate but were happy with what they accepted; 27% didn't negotiate and now wish they had; 14% negotiated well and got what they wanted."
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Données source de
2025-03-04
Consulté le
2026-06-30
Calcul
Same Resume Genius survey (n = 1,000, Nov 2024 – Mar 2025). The survey's own four-part breakdown isolates the clean inaction-regret group: 27% "didn't negotiate and now wish they had." The headline 57% "expressed some regret about how they approached their salary negotiation" bundles approach-regret (the 30% who regret their approach but felt it was right at the time — many of whom DID negotiate) onto the inaction count, roughly doubling it. The 0.27 figure is the only category that is unambiguously "accepted without negotiating, now regrets it," so it is the honest inaction-side rate.
[2]Pew Research Center — When negotiating starting salaries, most U.S. women, men don't ask for higher pay
Vérifié
↗ 1 other entry
Source de référence
Most U.S. workers did not ask for higher pay than what was initially offered when last hired; only 32% of men and 28% of women say they did ask
Extrait
“"Most U.S. workers who are not self-employed say they did not ask for higher pay than what was initially offered the last time they were hired for a job. ... But men are slightly more likely than women (32% vs. 28%) to say they did ask for higher pay than what was offered."
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Données source de
2023-04-05
Consulté le
2026-06-30
Vérification
Extrait récupéré et confirmé de manière indépendante, mot pour mot, par rapport à la source citée lors de notre audit de vérification.
Calcul
Pew Research nationally representative survey (5,902 employed U.S. adults, Feb 2023). Confirms the baseline that a majority of workers do not negotiate — only about 3 in 10 (men 32%, women 28%) say they asked for higher pay — providing denominator context for the inaction-regret figure: most of the regretful population never attempted negotiation at all.
Réserves
Le côté action ne dispose d'aucune enquête directe sur le regret. Le sondage de Resume Genius demande uniquement aux négociateurs s'ils ont obtenu une meilleure offre, et non s'ils regrettent d'avoir négocié ; 78% déclarent avoir finalement obtenu une meilleure offre et 22% non. Le taux d'action de 0.22 est une approximation — la part des négociateurs dont la tentative n'a pas donné de meilleure offre — et constitue une borne supérieure, car « pas de meilleure offre » n'est pas la même chose que « je regrette d'avoir essayé ». proxy_only est activé pour le divulguer. Le taux côté inaction est le chiffre net de 27% de l'enquête qui « n'ont pas négocié et regrettent aujourd'hui de ne pas l'avoir fait » ; une version antérieure utilisait le chiffre phare de 57% qui « ont exprimé un certain regret quant à la façon dont ils ont abordé leur négociation salariale », mais ce chiffre regroupe les 30% qui regrettent leur approche tout en estimant qu'elle était juste sur le moment (dont beaucoup ONT négocié) avec le décompte de l'inaction, le doublant à peu près. Les deux enquêtes proviennent de panels en ligne auto-sélectionnés, et non d'échantillons probabilistes. La conclusion du Pew Research selon laquelle la plupart des travailleurs ne négocient jamais (seuls ~30% ont demandé une rémunération plus élevée) corrobore l'ampleur de la non-négociation mais ne mesure pas directement le regret. Le taux de succès de 85% de l'étude Fidelity peut surcompter les gains partiels. La conclusion directionnelle — le regret lié à la négociation salariale penche du côté de l'inaction — tient, mais l'écart est modeste une fois le chiffre de l'inaction restreint au groupe net. Les données d'enquête proviennent exclusivement d'échantillons des États-Unis ; les taux de satisfaction et de regret dans des pays aux structures institutionnelles différentes — droit du travail, normes d'emploi, systèmes de prestations — peuvent différer sensiblement.
