I’ll find out tomorrow if I’ve been successful with a job I applied for. It’s the same pay grade and same employer but a different department. The benefits for me are less stress (no line management, no dealing with the public) and more WFH which reduces commuting costs.
The job is advertised at £35k which is the bottom of my pay grade, but I’m already on £41k which is just above midpoint. Partly because I have a contract that says that after 5 years if you haven’t hit midpoint you will be bumped up to that (they don’t issue those contracts anymore).
If I get offered the job, I will obviously ask them to match the pay, but I’m guessing they don’t have to? Anyone have any experience with this? I don’t know if I should take it at the lower pay. It’s taken years to get to £41k, but I really want to escape my stressful job and this is a brilliant opportunity.