I always just say that my current salary is higher than it actually is. If we are getting to this point, they’ve usually already talked to my prior manager. People also like to haggle——when I sold a car on Craigslist, I wanted $4k for it, but I listed it as $6.3k so that when the buyers came and started doing the haggle dance, I played along and made them feel like they were getting a deal. We both “won”.