Would you boomerang back to a previous employer? My old manager reached out and is offering me 20% more of what I am making currently, which is 50% more than what I was making previously. I left because I was underpaid and the role was a lot of work (2 roles combined into 1), other than that the previous job has better benefits (pension and student loan repayment) and better hours (7am-3pm), and a guarantee 2% merit raise, but no growth opportunities.
At my current job, a lot of workers have worked there for 30+ years. Some are close to retirement, so there may be growth opportunities to move into a senior role, but the training is slow and I am not sure if I would get a decent raise as I have not had my yearly review yet. The current job also has been investing in me to learn my role and new system (Workday), but a lot of the newer employees who have been there 1+ year are now looking for new jobs because the senior role they acquired is a lot of work and unpaid overtime of working after hours or weekends since they are salaried to get the amount of work they have done.
I am currently making 55K and would be going back for 67K (was previously making $46K).