Counter Offer Email Templates You Can Send Today
Most counters happen over email, where the wording matters most. Counteroffer drafts a complete, professional counter offer email around your number so you can edit it and hit send.
Coaching, not legal or financial advice.
What are you negotiating?
Your offer or current pay
Market-rate band
Talking points
Email template
CopyTiming
Coaching, not legal or financial advice.
Direct answer
A counter offer email template is a ready-to-send message that asks for a higher salary in writing. A strong one thanks the employer, restates your excitement, names your specific counter number, and backs it with one or two lines of market reasoning, then ends warmly. Counteroffer fills this template with your offer, your counter figure, and your justification so it is ready in minutes. Edit it to sound like you before sending; it is a coaching tool, not a guarantee of the result.
Filled in, not blank
Counteroffer drops your number and reasoning into a proven structure, so you start from a finished draft instead of a scary empty email.
Warm and professional
The tone keeps the relationship strong: grateful, enthusiastic, and clear, which is exactly how a counter should read in writing.
Edit and send
Adjust a line or two to match your voice and the role, then send the same day instead of stalling for a week.
▲ where it is used
Counter offer email in the field.
Negotiating a job offer
The minutes after a written offer are when you have the most leverage you will ever have at that company. Counteroffer turns that moment into a clear plan instead of a panic.
Read more →Responding to a counteroffer
You resigned, and now they want you to stay for more money. Before you answer, it is worth knowing that the scary statistic everyone quotes at this moment has no source behind it.
Read more →New grads and first jobs
Your first offer feels like a gift you should not question, but you can still negotiate it politely. Counteroffer shows new grads how to counter without seeming entitled.
Read more →Signing bonus negotiation
A signing bonus is the easiest part of an offer for a company to say yes to, because it is one-time money that does not raise the salary band. That makes it the lever most candidates forget to pull.
Read more →▲ more of what Counteroffer does
Build your counteroffer in minutes.
Paste your offer or current pay and get a market-rate band, the number to counter with, talking points, and an email template.
Counteroffer is educational career coaching, not legal, financial, or HR advice.