A $31.75 to $52 per hour counter offer...
California is a wild wild place for machinists. ?? ??
We are recruiting for an Aerospace Shop in Cali. We found them a qualified machinist. Interviews went well.
This guy was making $31.75 per hour at his current shop. The shop we are supporting offered him $38 per hour + (basically) unlimited overtime. He verbally accepted.
Now... we always expect counter offers from the current employer. Because if the machinist is any good - the shop never wants them to leave. They know how hard it will be to find a suitable replacement.
But this one is a bit crazy... ??
After a bit of back and forth, the existing shop counter offered at $52 per hour!!! ?? ?? ??
So from $31.75 per hour to $52 per hour. And his job description did not change at all.
So was he drastically underpaid this whole time at $31.75 as a setup machinist in Cali? Or is he drastically overpaid now? Maybe a bit of both. Is this just a short-term band-aid solution that will eventually spiral? Who knows.
We actually have a document we send to every hireCNC before they resign from their shop. It's called "10 Reasons to NEVER accept a counter offer".
It's a bit of a longer document - but the idea essentially is as follows
" Many job seekers who accepted counteroffers would, for various reasons, return within months to start their job search again, because a counteroffer is a short-term solution to long-term underlying issues. Statistics have shown that four out of five people who accept counter-offers are gone within the year"
Logic aside, how can you turn down a $20.25 per hour increase to stay at a job who are mostly comfortable in???
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2 个月I was told long ago, never accept a counter offer when you give your notice. If it took leaving to wake them up, they'll never value you. I've kept to that principle in my working career. I've had friends accept counter offers, and out of the 10 or so over the last 22yrs they've all regretted it. I however, have never regretted leaving, in fact, I usually enjoy it even more a few months down the road.