An extra five thousand dollars a year. That is often what it comes down to when someone finally hands in their notice.
But ask yourself honestly, is that number actually the problem, or is it just the easiest thing to point to?
Most people do not leave a role because of the base salary alone. They leave because a conversation never happened. Expectations were never reset as the job changed. A personality clash with a manager or a colleague sat there for months, unspoken, until leaving felt easier than raising it. None of that shows up on a payslip, and none of it gets fixed by an offer with a bigger number attached.
This is worth sitting with before you start looking elsewhere. If the frustration is really about workload, recognition, or how you are being managed, a new role with a better title and slightly more money will not solve it, it will just delay the same conversation with a different business. If it is a clash with someone specific, that is worth naming, even if it feels uncomfortable, because the alternative is starting again somewhere new without ever knowing if it was fixable.
The grass looks greener because you are only seeing the job ad, not the day to day. A new business comes with its own version of the same issues, sometimes better, sometimes worse, and you will not know which until you are already in it.
None of this means stay somewhere that is not working for you. It means being honest about what is actually driving the decision before you make it. So before you leave, have you actually said what needs to be said, or have you just decided it is easier to go?
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