>> if: - job hopping hurts long term career growth at management level and above Sounds like you're a team lead/manager looking to move higher up into manageme

>> if: - job hopping hurts long term career growth at management level and above Sounds like you're a team lead/manager looking to move higher up into management in the future? If that's the case, pay is certainly important, all else being equal you take the higher paying job because typically in the higher paying job more is expected of you, but you need to look at how the new role is going to get you the experience that gets you into whatever management position you're hoping to grow into. The wild card of course is the economy, in a recession it becomes a game of musical chairs. If things get bad you might end up back on the market real quick. Maybe the hiring managers today would compromise and hire someone with only short tenure positions because there aren't any other levers they can tweak and they either hire or lose the position. In a recession the hiring manager doesn't compromise, you do. Maybe we go into a recession, maybe one has already started, maybe it's all a false alarm.