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Leaving My Company – Higher Salary or More PTO?

A month ago my office experience a surge of Covid. Nearly everyone got sick. I was exposed by my employer, became ill, and needed to use a week of PTO. I only accumulate only 2 weeks a year. This is right before my wedding which will take a week honeymoon and a few days of vender meet ups, so I will be in a PTO deficit due to this whole debacle. When I tell recruiters this they are flabbergasted that my company was so apathetic to exposing me to Covid and using my personal PTO days to compensate their lack of planning. I’m looking at new positions. One position is offering an additional $5k, financial analyst, great experience, a field that is more lucrative, and room for advancement because it is large. It is hybrid after the first 4 months. The second is the field I am already in, senior…


A month ago my office experience a surge of Covid. Nearly everyone got sick. I was exposed by my employer, became ill, and needed to use a week of PTO. I only accumulate only 2 weeks a year. This is right before my wedding which will take a week honeymoon and a few days of vender meet ups, so I will be in a PTO deficit due to this whole debacle. When I tell recruiters this they are flabbergasted that my company was so apathetic to exposing me to Covid and using my personal PTO days to compensate their lack of planning.

I’m looking at new positions. One position is offering an additional $5k, financial analyst, great experience, a field that is more lucrative, and room for advancement because it is large. It is hybrid after the first 4 months. The second is the field I am already in, senior accountant, a higher title, and is offering 4 weeks of PTO a year. It is smaller so I’m uncertain of advancement opportunities. It will be hybrid as well.

Which one would you go with?

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