Counter Offer OpinionsOpen for disucssion, has to do with accepting an offer but having to work away from home for less. Living in Colorado but can work in Stafford, VA and not sure if having to spend extra to live away from home for the possible future of networking in the D.C. area is really worth it or wait it out locally for another opportunity while seeking additional training. Thoughts should I negotiate? Negotiate: Almost always. As long as done appropriately, it demonstrates confidence and skill. And, of course, you might increase your earnings. When you are currently making more, you certainly have some leverage. When it also requires a move, more leverage. I am not saying that you will necessarily succeed. It very much depends on how much they want you. However, those are in your favor. The bigger question I think is what is your field, how strong a candidate are you, what does the local market look like, and how attractive (aside from the location) is this Stafford opportunity. You didn' t share whether you have a family in Stafford and the impact on them. If so, it weighs in the equation. If you are currently employed, and you have an offer that is for less than you are making now, and that requires you to move, doesn' t make a lot of sense, unless... * it gets you into an area that is going to allow you to develop your career Understand, the family is in Colorado Springs so working on a geo bachelor basis at some point is another question with a 10 an d12 year old as well to consider. So the impact would be have to move or do the long distance work to facilitate future networking question then is that worth the stress on the whole family. Selling homes right now in Colorado is tough if not impossible. But then buying in VA may be a good time. I guess I have done lots of time away from home so kids gorw up fast enough without being gone so much.
Most of the time, when you leave one job for another, you are low person on the toetm pole again. Unless there is a union involved, they are not going to pay you what they pay others who have seniority. You have to expect to start at the bottom pay scale again. I have found this nearly always to be true. Negotiate for higher pay?? In the case of many of us they can probably find someone younger for whom that pay is acceptable. Usually the company offers you their going rate for the position. I personally, though, am going to start asking if there is a possibility of receiving financial compensation for the insurance benefits that I never take because my husband usually has better benefits. I had that at a job some years ago. Otherwise, others in the same position who take benefits make quite a bit more if you take what the company pays for those benefits into consideration. My brother went from one city police department with a lot of seniority to another and had to go several steps back and build up again. However, it isn' t as true in the business world where things are based more on merit than seniority. A sales manager would move to a better situation. A project manager would change jobs to get ahead, or to get bigger projects, or a shot at a different kind of role. Of course, during difficult economic times, people are often forced to accept jobs they wouldn' t otherwise take. But in general, when companies are looking to hire people for specific roles, they try and hire the best available talent, and whoever gets that job moves into that role, with the associated compensation and authority. (Of course, they still have to make their way in the new organization and perform.) One exception is vacation time. If you have earned a lot of vacation in one role, it can be very hard to duplicate that or negotiate it in your new company. I do see a situation, which you might be speaking of, where someone has spent many years in a job and the level of the job hasn' t changed, but those years have been rewarded with increases in vacation and compensation. And then when that person wants to move to the same level of job somewhere else, they can find themselves priced out of the market. | |
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