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> paycheck, flexibility, or even benefits

At many, many companies, your manager directly decides or at least influences all three of these, so if you quit due to them, you're also quitting because of your manager.



Few direct managers have the ability to give you a raise that a new employer would, in cases where you're being underpaid relative to the market.

They also rarely have much influence over work flexibility or benefits.


> Few direct managers have the ability to give you a raise that a new employer would

I'm usually very up-front with my reports on this. I make it very clear that I cannot compete with other companies on an immediate short-term compensation bump, so if they prioritize "money now" over everything else, then they should go out and interview.

However in the four years that I was a manager at my previous company, nobody on my team ever took me up on the advice to switch companies to get more money faster.


>immediate short-term compensation bump

Did you believe you could deliver better long term compensation? This phrasing suggests that, it's a clever way to suggest something without promising it.


> Did you believe you could deliver better long term compensation?

Usually, but not always. Of course it's impossible to predict 4+ years into the future, because so many factors can come into play on that time scale.




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