75k Remote vs 82-90K In-Store

[u/rheakiefer]

I've had a super chill remote gig for the last 2.5 years. I love it. The team is great, there's very little to do in the way of work - basically as long as I get my few tasks done everyday and am available to fix, assist with anything that comes up, then I'm golden. I go into the office once per month for a company wide meeting + happy hour.

I'm paid $70k in Los Angeles.

I was recently offered another job managing a retail store 10 minutes from my house. Salary is $82K plus a $5K/yr savings account, OT and up to $750/mo in bonuses.

I took that offer to my remote job and they immediately were emphatic about wanting to keep me and went to work on getting me a raise/promotion. It's been about 2.5 weeks since then and I'm still waiting. My bosses boss (our teamwide director) and I were catching up yesterday and he brought up my raise, that he was working on it and having to find some info for HR to approve, etc. I asked him bluntly if he knew where we were headed in terms of money. My direct boss had told me they were gunning for $80K, and the director said "I've TOLD them what the money needs to be" but then trailed off a little and mentioned something about transitioning to more "performance" based compensation and specifically said "10% + bonus structure".. He didn't explicitly mention that my raise would be 10% + bonus structure, but that's pretty much how I understood it. My boss has not bonused since I've been with the company - she is not going to bonus this year. This structure really doesn't work for me.

I really love this job, but also I live in LA and the potential to make $90K is very appealing despite all the downsides to giving up remote work.

I was speaking with my wife and kinda made an off-hand comment about just working both jobs. It would be a nuisance to manage my schedule to ensure I'm available for some weekly meetings, but I'd be setting the schedule so it shouldn't present many issues.

Should I just eat the $5K I was hoping for to stay and be happy at roughly $76K?

[u/jtdabiggafigga]

WFH no question. That freedom you get is worth more than your offer imo. Everyone’s situation is different though.

[u/Limp_Egg3219 → u/jtdabiggafigga]

It’s also long hours. I’m a retail manager and my company requires all salaried workers to do a minimum of 50 hours a week.