Would you leave a job you love for double the salary?

I do love my job but would absolutely move for double the salary.

If you are satisfied with new role, working patterns, company culture, policies, pension, health insurance & benefits (is the overall package double or is it not as good is it sounds If the other benefits are reduced?).

The other thing I would do is check and understand the financial accounts for the new company. Too many people move for what looks great in theory but it's often an underfunded start up or a struggling company dispretedly hiring in talent to try turn it around (then they are let go either before probation and without redundancy).

Also, are you worth it? For example, I'm worth max 33% more than I'm currently earning. I know I'm not worth double. (Would still take it but realise it's risky it's probably an overstretch of my skillset!).
Are you currently underpaid or unpromoted?

Finally, if you are really good, existing employer will often take you back if it doesn't work out and they have capacity too.

Good luck whatever you decide.

No. I did this when I was younger and within 6 months I’d left. They lied to me and wanted their pound of flesh. The stress was horrendous as was the lack of support.

luckily my previous employer offered me a similar job to the one I’d left but in a different location. I didn’t take it because the whole experience turned me off my sector and I changed my career.

Same happened in this new career and I stayed put. It’s paid off. Money is not the be all and end all.

I think this is really relevant. Do you need the extra money or are you in a position that it wouldn’t particularly be life changing? If it’s the former then absolutely, if the latter then not necessarily.

This. Above 80K the difference in responsibility t extra money isn’t worth it.

Also, why is it double? Shit organisation that has to pay more? Much more work?

I have been headhunted for a lot more money a couple of times. I know the manager in that role and I know why as well. Not worth a million. A year.

It has to depend on the job. If I could leave my current job and do much the same for twice the money then I'd do it in a heartbeat. If it meant going somewhere that I'd have to look someone in the eyes and sack them every day then I'm not sure I could. That being said I've never moved job and regretted it.

Yep.

I currently earn 35% more than my last job that I loved. I don’t like it as much, but I do feel the financial difference. I’m about to pay my mortgage off even earlier than planned and the extra means I’ll get to retire earlier as well.

It would depend on a number of things such as if I needed the money and the reputation of the company I’d be moving to.

Not a chance I have the best job ever twice the money not a chance…. Three times maybe.

Nope. Not if I was in a job I loved and had enough to live on.

I had experience of being in a place I hate. It nearly destroyed me. I would be driving to work praying I’d get hit by a truck and sustain an injury bad enough I didn’t have to go back. There’s a lot to be said for being in a job you love. Money isn’t everything.

What the salary? If from 30 to 60 yes. If from 70 to 140 not sure.

If its doing a comparable job - probably. Id ask Qns about the things I value (like flexible working, holiday allowance, sick pay, pension contribution) to decide for definite

For double? Hell, yes.