Which job would you choose?

[angelinaballerinaa]

I'm in a conundrum, I have two job offers and I'm struggling to decide which to take. For reference all the jobs are home based, and all offering condensed hours over a 4 day working week.

Current Job
Salary - £47.5k
Hours - 37
Annual leave - 30 + BH + Christmas closure 3 days
Pension - employer pays 9%

Job 1
Salary - £49.5k + OTE upto 10k
Hours - 37
Annual leave - 25 + BH + Christmas closure 3 days
Pension - employer pays 3%

Job 2
Salary - £53k
Hours - 35
Annual leave - 30 + BH + Christmas closure 3 days
Pension - employer pays 9%

On paper it looks like job 2 is the one to go for, but the potential for bonuses and more progression options in job 1 is what's making me second guess the decision.

What do you all think?

3 as it's only on target earnings. My husband switched recently to more salary based role than commission. It's so much better

I definitely go for job 2, would more trust a company offering guaranteed package, good annual leave, serious pension etc

So I turned down Job 1, and they have asked me if they can review their offer and speak to me tomorrow to see if they can offer something better 🙈

What kind of package/offer would you need on the table to make you change your mind on the above?

Job 1 has the better "intangible" offer with progression etc? So if they can match job 2 on the financials then it would be the better offer taking into account progression opportunities. Unless you value the progression opps higher than the £?

I can't imagine they would be able to match job2?

What would persuade you?

@aspirationalflamingo I'm thinking the holiday/reduced hours/pension maybe can't be made up with salary at this point?

As a package those additional points add up to quite a bit but I'm not 100% sure

Yeh I was looking at all those aspects and thinking they'd need to match them - unless you really highly value the progression opportunities they have to the point where it would make up the difference.

Eg if they were only slightly under across all those areas but the progression opportunities were worth more than the difference to you - only you can really answer that part. It's difficult to weigh in on that as an abstract.

Two hours per week difference in working hours is barely noticeable on a daily basis. If everything else aligned that's maybe the part I would be prepared to overlook.

for me job 2 as the grass is not always greener