An employer makes an offer of a monthly basic salary of 5000

An employer makes an offer of a monthly basic salary of $5000 to a job prospect for the position of Project Manager. The job prospect reverted that he is looking at at least a monthly basic salary of $5,500. The action of the job prospect is

1.declining the job

2.accepting the job

3.making a counter offer

4. making conditional acceptance

Solution

The answer is 3 - making a counter offer.

Counter offer is an offer made in response to another, which was seen as unacceptable. It involves revising the initial offer.

Here the job prospect was made an offer of $5,000. The offer was unacceptable to him and he changed the initial offer to $5,500. Whether it will be accepted or not, we don\'t know. It cannot be forced on either of the parties as well.