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I currently work 4 days a week spread over 5. Wfh two days a week until 3. Do all school drop offs and pick up on my two wfh days.

For transparency earn 38 + car + health + very variable bonus so 43 last year.

Have been offered 60 for new job ft, + package but I don't know what that is.

At 60, will lose all child benefit and not be able to drop off so pay 5x2 every week for breakfast club, plus 15x2 ASC for the two days I can't pick up anymore so£440 pm more than I'm paying now.

Minus the child benefit (husband is on about 43 as a teacher), I can't see how it stacks up apart from improving my career and not seeing my children at all during the week.

Any thoughts??

Personally I would stick with your current job unless the same amount of flexibility can be built into your new role. Work/life balance is important.

Based upon your current total pay - pro rata that would be £53.75k FTE. Childcare will cost £5k a year so it isn’t really much of a pay rise and you’ll go into the higher rate tax bracket. I’d stay put I think for flexibility and family.

It depends on if this is a stepping stone to even bigger role / salary. And is the new role more interesting / stretching.

So if you take this could you be on £70k in 4 years or is this the final step?
It could be worth the short term trade off to be 5 years down the line earning a fair chunk more and with minimal childcare costs.

Even so now might not be the time for you and your family but it's worth looking at a longer term picture than just this step.

How many more years will you need breakfast club/drop off etc? How often do jobs like this come along in your area? Do you actually want to do this job?

Accept it and request flexitime plus two days working from home. It can still work.

Can you do a 9 day fortnight or other flexi working?

How old are the kids? Think in 5 years time whether you'll be searching for this opportunity then and how likely it'll be to come up. If a difficult one to get in a few years when your kids might not need picking up/dropping off then might be short term pain for long term gain?

Oh I just don't know! Kids are 8. I'm underpaid at the moment but have sucked it up for the extreme flexibility.

There'll be opportunities in the future but I think this may be my time to move.

There's probably another three steps before I reach max earning capacity.