Quote (TheOmnipotent @ Mar 9 2020 12:27am)

There is risk in leaving your current job where you are comfortable, have the mutual respect of your coworkers, and have many avenues to develop your skills.

Yes often times the best way to get a significant bump (10-20%) is by leaving your current job. As a manager there are limited options available for us to meet this kind of raise - there are "market adjustments" or "retention adjustments" that can be done for essential people but it's really hard to get these.

I would say it is definitely a balance between comfort in your current role, what you could reasonably get by leaving your current job, and what skills and experience you can continue to gain in your current role. For example for a reasonably sized company, even if you work in say the IT group there is still much you can learn in project management, finance, supply chain, sales, operations, and most other functional groups that will add value to your resume and keep your job interesting and fresh.

Now more than ever the expectation is that most employees will stay for 2-3 years and either transition to a new role in the company or move on.

The best advise I have received on this is that its not always about the money, but if you feel like it's time to move on you should trust your intuition. Even if you make a mistake you are still moving forward in your career.

Good luck :)

Quote (Plaguefear @ Mar 9 2020 05:20am)

My partner works for the highest paying company in her industry and has 15 years with them, i jumped ship a few times for pay rises but i have found working with people i enjoyed being around outweighed a few dollars.

Quote (Forg0tten @ Mar 9 2020 06:25pm)

I don't call 68k to 80-90k "a few dollars" :p
American salaries don't compare well to European ones so I imagine it's difficult to put this reply in its correct perspective.
A physiotherapist would earn 2500 euro's to 2800 euro's a month, or about 50% of what a patient pays (but you run the risk of not having patients and thus no salary). This is a starting salary.
I have the luck that my employer was happy to pay 62% right off the bat and he has a lot of groups. On a good month I raked in 4400 euro's, which is more than my dad (An icon in the printer software industries) and my brother (manager of ~1b revenue/year companies) make. It's a salary I'll not get anywhere else in the Netherlands as a physio.

I do not jump ships for salary because of the simple reason I'll never find a better place in that field. However, I am also enrolled in med school. Here's a field where changing jobs may indeed get me a better income, however, being the left near-communist that I am, I find it likely that I will work where I feel I help the people who need that help rather than those who can pay for that help. In Belgium, where I study, this will easily cut my salary in half. Shrug. I won't have time to spend the money anyway. As long as I've got a decent home, a reliable car and if possible, a happy wife by then -- that's all I can wish for. I don't need 6 cars, a phat home, 8 holidays per year and what not.


...I'd like a good kitchen though. I like cooking.

Quote (thundercock @ Mar 8 2020 10:51pm)

As someone in software, I've gotten some substantial pay increases when I jumped ship. I make it a priority to start looking every 2 years to see if I can do significantly better. I wish the world wasn't like that but that's the way it is.

Quote (EndlessSky @ Mar 8 2020 11:09pm)

Its a good argument, but you're probably in the top 10% of workers so what works for you probably doesn’t work for everyone.

Quote (duffman316 @ 9 Mar 2020 14:12)

Hop around regularly but the consultant gig seems to be the most fun
i still shop at walmart and identify as one of the poors