Persentase orang yang kemudian menyesali setiap pilihan. Diagram batang dan catatan lengkap ditampilkan di bawah.
Career
Terakhir ditinjau 2026-04-26
Kualitas bukti 4.0/5
Skor tinjauan delapan dimensi terhadap
rubrik kualitas
. Setiap dimensi dinilai 1–5.
D1 Verifikasi sumber
3/5
D2 Otoritas & independensi sumber
4/5
D3 Akurasi tingkat penyesalan
3/5
D4 Keterbandingan sumber
4/5
D5 Pola Gilovich
5/5
D6 Kualitas prosa
5/5
D7 Kelengkapan peringatan
4/5
D8 Kualitas sampel
4/5
Rata-rata4.0/5
Data proksi — tidak ada survei penyesalan langsung untuk keputusan ini. Tingkat diturunkan dari skor kepuasan dan data hambatan akses daripada pertanyaan yang langsung menanyakan tentang penyesalan. Lihat peringatan di bawah.
Penyesalan atas tindakan
Menegosiasikan gaji
22%
tidak ada survei penyesalan langsung; 22% negosiator tidak mendapat penawaran yang lebih baik (batas atas proksi — 78% berakhir dengan yang lebih baik)
Pekerja AS yang bernegosiasi, panel online
retrospektif, tidak ada kerangka waktu tetap
Penyesalan atas kelambanan
Menerima tanpa negosiasi
27%
27% tidak bernegosiasi dan kini berharap mereka telah melakukannya
Pekerja AS, panel online
retrospektif, tidak ada kerangka waktu tetap
% menyesal dengan pilihan ini
Menegosiasikan gajiMenerima tanpa negosiasi
22%27%
inaction dominates — Tidak bertindak mendominasi — sebagian besar menyesali karena tidak bertindak.
Keputusan terkait
Keputusan yang serupa secara semantik — area yang sama, kompromi yang berbeda.
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.
Sumber: tindakan
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[1]Resume Genius — Salary Negotiation & Expectations Report
Studi primer
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)
Kutipan
“"Of workers who negotiated, nearly 8 in 10 of them (78%) say they ended up with a better offer."
”
Data sumber dari
2025-03-04
Diakses
2026-06-30
Perhitungan
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
Sumber referensi
85% of Americans who counteroffered on salary or benefits got at least some of what they asked for
Kutipan
“"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."
”
Data sumber dari
2022-05-13
Diakses
2026-04-26
Perhitungan
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.
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[1]Resume Genius — Salary Negotiation & Expectations Report
Studi primer
27% of US workers didn't negotiate and now wish they had (the clean inaction-regret figure within the survey's four-part breakdown)
Kutipan
“"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."
”
Data sumber dari
2025-03-04
Diakses
2026-06-30
Perhitungan
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
Terverifikasi
↗ 1 other entry
Sumber referensi
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
Kutipan
“"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."
”
Data sumber dari
2023-04-05
Diakses
2026-06-30
Verifikasi
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Perhitungan
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.
Catatan
Sisi tindakan tidak memiliki survei penyesalan langsung. Jajak pendapat Resume Genius hanya menanyakan negosiator apakah mereka mendapat penawaran yang lebih baik, bukan apakah mereka menyesal telah bernegosiasi; 78% mengatakan mereka berakhir dengan penawaran yang lebih baik dan 22% tidak. Tingkat tindakan 0,22 adalah proksi — bagian negosiator yang upayanya tidak menghasilkan penawaran yang lebih baik — dan merupakan batas atas, karena "tidak ada penawaran yang lebih baik" tidak sama dengan "saya berharap tidak mencoba". proxy_only ditetapkan untuk mengungkapkan hal ini. Tingkat kelambanan adalah angka bersih survei 27% yang "tidak bernegosiasi dan kini berharap mereka telah melakukannya"; draf sebelumnya menggunakan angka utama 57% yang "mengungkapkan sejumlah penyesalan tentang cara mereka mendekati negosiasi gaji mereka", tetapi angka itu menggabungkan 30% yang menyesali pendekatan mereka namun merasa itu benar pada saat itu (banyak dari mereka MEMANG bernegosiasi) ke dalam hitungan kelambanan, kira-kira menggandakannya. Kedua survei diambil dari panel daring yang dipilih sendiri, bukan sampel probabilitas. Temuan Pew Research bahwa sebagian besar pekerja tidak pernah bernegosiasi (hanya ~30% meminta bayaran lebih tinggi) menguatkan skala non-negosiasi tetapi tidak langsung mengukur penyesalan. Tingkat keberhasilan 85% dari studi Fidelity mungkin melebih-hitung kemenangan parsial. Temuan arah — penyesalan negosiasi-gaji condong ke sisi kelambanan — bertahan, tetapi selisihnya moderat begitu angka kelambanan dibatasi pada kelompok bersih. Data survei diambil secara eksklusif dari sampel Amerika Serikat; tingkat kepuasan dan penyesalan di negara-negara dengan struktur institusional berbeda — hukum ketenagakerjaan, norma ketenagakerjaan, sistem tunjangan — mungkin berbeda substansial.
