DUF

I'm finishing my PhD by the end of the year in biochemistry and I'm starting to look at job opportunities. There's a job at a biotech company that I'm going to apply for, and in the description for the job they ask you to put your salary expectations. I can satisfy most of the requirements. They do say that they're looking for someone with 5+ years experience developing assays/products. Because of the 5+ year requirement, I'm thinking anyone who applies with that amount of experience and a PhD will be looking for somewhere around $80-100k. So perhaps my strategy would be to low ball myself (Maybe $50-60k range) to get some experience and then move up eventually or move on when I actually have valued experience. Any advice is appreciated. This is in Canada BTW if that matters.

I've been lurking for the past couple weeks, but since there haven't been many people posting, I thought I would just let people know that my department chair told my PI today that I got a doctoral NSERC. He didn't say if it was CGS or PGS (PGS my guess). So the information is out there! Letters should be on the way or about to be put in the mail. Good luck everyone else!