How much $$ would it take to get you to change jobs?

[jIM_Ohio]

I reitterate what others have said, I would definately sit down with my boss and say "I have been offered XYZ" Can you match that to keep me here?

When thinking about his in my shoes it would be tough as I work for a large employer with alot of opportunities for growth within the company, good work life balance, excellent benifits, and a track record of very nice salary increases each year. It would be tough to leave my current job for less than a 25% increase.

The statistics on this suggest if you ask your employer to counter, you will be leaving this job soon anyway. I have seen it in the past with co-workers which received the counter offer, then left anyway a short time later.

Focus on the non financial aspects of the job. Focus on what makes you tick, and what makes you happy. MONEY is not what makes you happy, it is a byproduct of being happy.

[Reggie]

I accepted the offer contingent on a couple of things. im nervous and excited. I may go buy myself a new daily driver automobile. I've been looking around for awhile and mine is a beater and just about dead! Now I'm off to buy some new suits to make good first impressions.

I cannot believe how hard that decision was!

[corn18]

The answer was staring you in the face all the time: you want to be an engineer, not a manager. And as a software engineer, you will never be out of work, so the risk of moving is low. Enjoy the new job and never look back.

[bigdaddybus]

The statistics on this suggest if you ask your employer to counter, you will be leaving this job soon anyway. I have seen it in the past with co-workers which received the counter offer, then left anyway a short time later.

Focus on the non financial aspects of the job. Focus on what makes you tick, and what makes you happy. MONEY is not what makes you happy, it is a byproduct of being happy.

makes sense. With the opportunities and work life balance my employer provides I havent ever seriously looked a leaving.

Reggie, I wish you the best in your new job. Whats a suit? lol Thank goodness my employer has a casual dress code

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I have until tomorrow to let them know. I enjoy my work and there is no change with the actual work. I'm a software engineer. It would just be a change in company. I work for a large company now and the only difference I can really see is that I have to wait three months to be vested in the 401K. I will ask them if I can get vested immediately. They are offering me an additional week of vacation, a guaranteed annual bonus and they do profit sharing.

They called me and offered me 8% increase in salary and that's just over $10K.

I don't need medical or dental.

The biggest difference is that currently I manage 65 people. When I took over as lead, I was managing around 30 and that number keeps climbing higher and higher. It's as if all I do is manage people and barely have time to do actual work. The new job requires that I manage a team of only five engineers. That is very appealing to me. No more hiring, no more HR tasks. This company has a local HR dept that handles all of that.

Sounds like you'd be happier at the new job. You can make more money, you'll never get back the time you spent at this other position you clearly liked less.

Go for it. Life is short.