{"id":5942,"date":"2018-12-04T22:08:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T22:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=5942"},"modified":"2019-01-14T22:37:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T22:37:04","slug":"survey-1-in-4-would-turn-down-a-20-raise-if-it-meant-leaving-their-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/survey-1-in-4-would-turn-down-a-20-raise-if-it-meant-leaving-their-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: 1 in 4 Would Turn Down a 20% Raise if it Meant Leaving Their Current Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For some people, a significant salary bump\u00a0isn&#8217;t enough of a reason to leave a job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When asked whether they&#8217;d leave their current job for a 20% increase in pay, 27% of people said no, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/102-would-you-leave-your-current-job-for-a-20-raise-at-a-different-company\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Comparably<\/a>. More than 10,000 people participated in the survey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5945 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/12\/ds.png\" alt=\"ds\" width=\"671\" height=\"89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/12\/ds-300x40.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/12\/ds.png 671w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>The older you are, the more tempted you are by a 20% raise<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Looking at the data from an age perspective, the youngest workers had the highest rate of saying no (30%). The rate dropped from there, hitting a low of 21% among workers 51 to 55.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5943 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/12\/ds3.png\" alt=\"ds3\" width=\"516\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/12\/ds3-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/12\/ds3.png 516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 85vw, 516px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Executives most likely to turn down the offer; IT most likely to accept it<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fifty-four percent of people in executive roles said that they wouldn&#8217;t take a 20% pay bump if it meant leaving their current role. HR workers were next in line, with 36% saying no to the offer.<\/p>\n<p>On the other end of the spectrum were IT workers, 20% of whom say they would say no to a 20% pay bump if it meant leaving their current role. Product and customer support were next (23% and 24%, respectively).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5944 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/12\/dsw2.png\" alt=\"dsw2\" width=\"713\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/12\/dsw2-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/12\/dsw2.png 713w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The latest reading is as of Dec. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some people, a significant salary bump\u00a0isn&#8217;t enough of a reason to leave a job. When asked whether they&#8217;d leave their current job for a 20% increase in pay, 27% of people said no, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. More than 10,000 people participated in the survey. The older &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/survey-1-in-4-would-turn-down-a-20-raise-if-it-meant-leaving-their-job\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5942"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5951,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5942\/revisions\/5951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}