I’m not sure I would trust them. If they think you are worth $130,000, why did they give you such a paltry raise? What’s to keep them from firing you in four months, and at that point you will have burned the other bridge.

Can you tell us more about the pros and cons of each job?

Anonymous wrote:Don't do it

This. ^ If they truly valued you that way, they would have paid you that by now.

Anonymous wrote:Your company had an extra $55K to give you and didnt until you gave notice? They suck. Get out of there. Cheap and exploitive, and that isn't going to change. Good for you for landing another role.

You could however, tell the new company you are considering a counter and see if they throw in more.

They will bag you first chance they get.

At my old company, a counter offer was the only way to get a significant raise. If they gave it to you, it meant that you were valued.

Now, my last company kind of sucked...so I'm glad I'm not there anymore. But if you like your day-to-day and immediate colleagues, I'd take the extra $30K for 1-2 years while figuring out next steps.

Your company had an extra $55K to give you and didnt until you gave notice? They suck. Get out of there. Cheap and exploitive, and that isn't going to change. Good for you for landing another role.

You could however, tell the new company you are considering a counter and see if they throw in more.

At a previous job, I had this happen twice. I stayed both times. Honestly, I was much happier when I left - and I liked my job and the people. But I felt like I had one foot out the door. Plus, it honestly felt like I was only getting these large raises because I had an offer elsewhere and the company was forced into it, rather than them seeing my value to begin with and paying me accordingly to start with.

Great question, I've changed jobs a lot and I've never requested or received a counter offer. I don't think I can even recall anyone I know that has received a counter offer. My thought always was that the relationship has been poisoned, it's time to go. But that's a huge percentage increase, very hard to turn that down. Comes down to how secure you feel in your current job, they aren't going to forget, how safe is your job if you stay? Good luck.

Personally I believe that once you quit, you shouldn’t take it back. When the next round of layoffs come, they will remember you as disloyal.

That is a big enough jump that I might take it and stay for another year. Use the 130K salary to leverage up to an even higher base.

Wow, looks like they realized your value OP! Does the retention come with a promotion or expanded responsibilities?

Don't do it

Your old company sucks. They have to be forced to give you more than 75K and you forced their hand and they had an additional 55K that they just didn't feel like giving you...

Ask new place to match!

If you like the company*

Currently making $75k
Accepted a new job at $100k
Current company countered with $130k

If you the company, coworkers, and work-life balance WWYD? I feel like I can't walk away from that, but also have been working really hard here and was up for a raise last month and they gave me a $3.5k raise.