What job should DH choose?

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DH has been working temp jobs (in his field eg. maternity cover) since he got made redundant two years ago. And now two interesting offers have cropped up at the same time, and he's genuinely torn.

YANBU - head of department of his own field which he has been working in for 20 years. £175k comp, 30% bonus and then an additional 12% of the 30% if he's performed extra well. This is the type of job he's been holding out for all this time.

YABU- the company he is temping for really like him and want to keep him and are offering him a role he's never done before. In his temp capacity he's been supporting this team and they feel like he could do their role really well and he'd be given all the appropriate training. £120k comp, 100% bonus on a 'bad year', 25% pension added by company when individual pays in 10%. He is nervous about taking this as he would retrain from scratch (by people~15yrs younger than him) but money is alluring especially given his temping for two years situation. If he can't get the bonus then the salary is 50k lower than the other role.

Which would you go for?

Whichever one he thinks he will enjoy most.

The money is (more than) good enough on both of them, so he can afford to decide which one will give him a better quality of life.

Both sound fabby. Toss a coin?

Job 1 sounds better for security so I think that one.

I’d be swayed by job security and the type of work, whether it’ll be around in future, whether there’s any value in re-training, etc.

If both jobs are equally interesting, similar travel / commuting commitments, job security short and long term then I'd go for the highest base plus company pension contribution.

Because although companies verbally often say bonuses are usually X (even on a bad year), unless the contract says bonus is guaranteed then they are discretionary and can be withdrawn / not paid / reduced for any reason.

Thanks all for your responses. DH has never been a risk taker and over the past two years he's been questioning his career choice a lot (because of how long it's taken to find something permanent) and so he's now convinced this is one of those times where he should take the risk... I find myself agreeing with most of the commenters here.