Pricing
Priced per engagement. No retainers.
One price per engagement, shown before you pay.
Flat fee, paid up front
You see the exact amount at checkout, and it is locked to your engagement.
All negotiation rounds included
Every employer reply is reviewed and coached — there is no per-round charge.
Success fee only if cash goes up
On negotiation engagements only, and only on the increase in your gross base cash severance.
| Service | Price | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Pre-employment You have an offer, a contract or an equity grant in hand and you have not signed yet. | ||||
Job Offer & Agreement Advisory Know what you are signing before you sign it. | $99 | |||
Executive Offer & Equity Advisory Leverage at the senior table. Where you land in the range depends on how many agreements and grant documents there are and how complex the equity is. We confirm the exact fee before you pay. | $499 – $999 | |||
While you're employed You are still on payroll and something has changed — a plan, a pay dispute, a manager, a reorg. | ||||
PIP & Performance Response Advisory A written plan for responding to a PIP or warning. | $149 | |||
After the exit A separation or severance package is on the table and the terms are still open. | ||||
Severance Agreement Review & Advisory Understand the exit terms before you sign the release. | $199 | |||
Severance Negotiation & Coaching Package Full review plus the words to use, every round. Includes everything in the Severance Agreement Review & Advisory — you don't need to buy both. | $399 | |||
Any stage Support that fits wherever you are, whether or not you start a packaged engagement. | ||||
Strategy Consultation A focused call with a senior advisor. | $99/hr | |||
Unless a row says otherwise, the price is a flat fee paid in full before work begins — no retainer and no hourly billing.
Turnaround starts when your payment clears and your intake and document upload are complete, not when you create the case.
What happens after you pay
Step 1
Sign the engagement agreement
Clickwrap, at checkout — you keep a copy in your portal.
Step 2
Complete your intake
Short set of questions tailored to the engagement you bought.
Step 3
Upload your documents
Offer letter, agreement or severance package, straight into the case.
Step 4
Your playbook lands
Written asks in priority order, with the wording to use, inside the promised turnaround.
How we compare
What the alternatives cost
Most people weighing an offer or a severance package are choosing between a career-coaching agency, an employment lawyer on a retainer or contingency, and doing nothing. Here is where Fulcrum sits.
Pre-employment
Job offer & agreement advisory
Written playbook, risk highlights and suggested wording for the terms worth raising before you sign.
Fulcrum
$99
flat fee, paid before work begins
- Coaching agencies
- $500–$800
- Employment lawyers
- $500–$800 flat
Executive offer & equity advisory
Deep read on vesting, change-in-control and deferred comp, plus custom scripts for the conversation.
Fulcrum
$499 – $999
flat fee, paid before work begins
- Coaching agencies
- $1,200+
- Employment lawyers
- $2,000–$3,500+
After the exit
Severance agreement review & advisory
Full release-scope read, clawback and restriction flags, and the asks ranked in the order to make them.
Fulcrum
$199
flat fee, paid before work begins
- Coaching agencies
- $800–$1,000
- Employment lawyers
- $750+ flat
Severance negotiation & coaching
Low up-front cost, a single-digit success fee, and coaching through every round and every message you send — all rounds included.
Fulcrum
$399 + 7%
flat fee up front, then 7% of any increase in gross base cash severance
before any success fee
- Coaching agencies
- $800 + 15% of the increase
- Employment lawyers
- $2,500+ retainer, or 25%–40% contingency
Any stage
Free risk check
Structured questions, an instant 0–100 read on your situation, and no documents to upload.
Fulcrum
$0
always free
- Coaching agencies
- $175 intake consultation
- Employment lawyers
- $350–$500 consultation
Live advisor call
Book a focused strategy session on its own — no package, no retainer, no minimum.
Fulcrum
$99/hr
You pay only for the time used, in 15-minute blocks — a 15-minute call is $24.75 and a 30-minute call is $49.50. Paid up front.
- Coaching agencies
- Bundled into a four-figure package
- Employment lawyers
- $350–$600 per hour
Savings badges compare up-front cost only, against the low end of the typical attorney range, and exclude any success fee.
Fulcrum prices are current and live. Agency and attorney figures are typical published ranges for comparable engagements, not quotes, and will vary by provider and location. Fulcrum provides employment advisory and negotiation coaching, not legal services — if you need legal claims assessed or representation in a proceeding, a licensed attorney in your state is the right choice, and these figures are not a substitute for one.
Not sure the fee is worth it?
Put your own figures against these prices. The calculator models what the conversation is worth, shows where a success fee breaks even, and never asks for your email.
Add-on
- +$99
Custom Communication Script
A ready-to-send message written for your situation — the asks in the right order, the wording, and the close. Covers every round of the negotiation, not just the first: each time the employer responds, your advisor writes you a fresh script at no extra cost. You must read the script in full and confirm every detail before you send it.
Isn't wording already included? Every engagement includes suggested wording and coaching on what to say. The add-on is different: an advisor writes the actual message for you, ready to send as-is, and refreshes it for each new employer response.
It can be added to any advisory or negotiation engagement, at checkout or any time while your case is open. One purchase covers every round. You send it yourself, in your own name, after reading it in full.
How the success fee is calculated
The success fee applies strictly to the increase in Gross Base Cash Severance (lump sum or salary continuation). Excluded: equity or option value or acceleration, health/COBRA premiums, accrued PTO, bonuses, outplacement, and any non-cash benefit. Inclusion of any excluded component requires a signed addendum.
A worked example
Your employer offers $20,000 and you settle at $30,000. The increase is $10,000, so the 7% success fee is $700 — on top of the $399 flat fee. If your cash severance does not increase, you pay nothing beyond the $399.
- It covers all rounds of the negotiation — every counteroffer reviewed, re-sequenced and coached — with no per-round fee.
- You report the final package; an advisor verifies it against the signed documents.
- We issue an invoice showing the full delta math, then charge the card on file 48 hours later.
- You can contest the calculation in your portal inside that window and the charge is paused.
- Earned but unpaid commission, bonus or draw balances are negotiated inside the same flat fee as a true-up line item. Because the success fee applies only to increases in gross base cash severance, recovering money you already earned does not change what you pay. How commission true-ups are negotiated
Delivery, refunds and scope changes
- Delivery
- Each service shows its own promised turnaround in the table above. The clock starts when payment clears and your intake and documents are in — not when you create the case — and everything is delivered in your portal, with no meeting required. Tell us the deadline you are working against and we sequence your case against it.
- Refunds
- You get a full refund any time before an advisor starts work — in practice, before document analysis or intake review begins. Your case page shows this: while the status still reads "Awaiting review", nothing has started and you are refundable. Once it moves to advisor review, fees are non-refundable, as stated in the engagement agreement. To request one, message us from your case or use the contact form. No retainers, no auto-renewals, and no success fee on an outcome an advisor has not verified with you.
- Scope changes
- Further rounds of the same negotiation are never a scope change — they are included in the package. Genuinely new work is issued as a written fee addendum showing exactly what it covers and what it costs. Nothing is charged and no work proceeds until you read and sign it. Fulcrum may adjust published pricing at any time; the price shown when you start an engagement is locked to that engagement.