Negotatiating Loan Repayment with a potential employer

[jbcaringpa]

I am 1 year out as a family practice PA, and will be interviewing as 2 practices next week (one is a endocrinology practice, and one is a geriatric practice). As some of you know, I am just not happy with the experience (or lack of) I gained this year at my current practice..

 

I really, really need to somehow get my new employer to help me out with paying my student loan debt, since I cant seem to get into a federal program where I live. Both practices seem to be great organizations with competitive salary. I would be willing to take 10 or 20k less salary if they would just use it to pay my loan back. My question is....

 

How do I negotiate this, and how much should I ask for ?!

 

Does anyone have experience with their employers paying back a chunk of their loan debt?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Sincerely,

 

       broke PA

[WeBuyAndSellJunk]

Sorry I have no answer, but I am curious to know a bit more about this also. I do recall somewhere along the road hearing that an employee can provide loan repayment pre-tax and that it can be used in some way as a tax break for the company though (could be totally wrong, this is only hearsay). Anyone know if this is true?

 

I would be more than willing to sacrifice some salary to pay back loans pre-tax and to potentially have my income fall in to a lower tax bracket at the end of the year.