A career break doesn't erase the experience you built before it. Yet returning professionals are often encouraged to negotiate from an old salary that may have been set years earlier in a completely different market.

In this episode of The Walk-Away Number, TJ Walker explains how to approach salary negotiation after time away from the workforce. Learn how to answer questions about an employment gap without apologizing, research the current market range for your role, avoid allowing your previous salary to anchor the negotiation, and position years of prior experience appropriately.

Whether you stepped away for caregiving, family responsibilities, entrepreneurship, or another reason, your employment history and your market value are not the same thing.

This episode of The Walk-Away Number is part ...