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I would leave my job in a second for 5k more a year. Admittedly I currently make less than 100k but that 5k more is 5k more money towards securing my family fin

• dunpeal 8y ago
  Yeah, folks tend to forget that not all engineers are in their early 20s, making $150k and content to live with roommates for the next decade (and possibly the rest of their lives).
• mb_72 8y ago
  Speaking of salaries being before tax, in Australia for example you'd only see 63 cents in the dollar out of that 5k (assuming a salary of $80k a year, probably not unreasonable for a lot of Australian developers). Might you also consider extra time off? I've done this before, and at one place ended up negotiating 1 day off every second week instead of a pay rise; I still, more or less, got just as much work done in 9 days as 10, and neither I nor the company had to fork over more money to the government. Not to mention, a long weekend every second weekend was great for relaxation and opened up possibilities for my wife and I to travel slightly further afield than we could for a standard length weekend.