> Why exactly should people like me leave when even places like <insert large company> want to pay me 10% less than I make now? You shouldn't, necessarily. How

> Why exactly should people like me leave when even places like <insert large company> want to pay me 10% less than I make now? You shouldn't, necessarily. However consider that <insert large company> may offer more career advancement (if that's your goal). Also consider that you're going to be well-liked by hiring managers who mistake "years at the same company" with "years of experience", and those managers are much more common than not. They're as mistaken as the people they deride as having "the same year of experience 10/20 times", but because of the way work has evolved they have a lot of cultural inertia behind them.