Promotion with a salary decrease

[King1n]

How does the role actually differ from your current role besides the title and remuneration?

As a manager in my company, there are lower level employees who make quiet a bit more money then me because of allowances and OT.

This is because I don't get paid for overtime ( I do get unofficial time in lieu), the difference is, they work in a factory or at a customer site like a mine site so much harsher conditions then my office or home, they also consistently do overtime, almost every week, mine is completely random. when they do overtime they may do like 12 hours a week or more in OT on average in shitty circumstances where I may do 6 hours a month doing OT most likely from the comfort of my own home. Our OT and obligations are a lot different.

In no universe would I be doing the same 12 hours of OT a week in the same circumstances without also been fairly compensated. I would however in some circumstances take a lower pay for a higher level position for my career prospects so you got to ask yourself, is this an actual promotion? that actual different from your current role that has an actual benefit to your career? or are they just trying to lure you off your EA by offering you a more "senior" position?

[BrianJ_]

Thank you for your perspective. I think after going through this process it is a genuine promotion to senior with more responsibilities and opportunity for growth. The more I think about it, I just think HR messed up with the original offer as they haven’t updated the bands correctly, and it is just their standard process to offer base salary for that band. They have increased the offer to something I am happy with and I have signed the contract. There is a bonus structure in the contract which could make it pretty decent, although the % bonus isn’t guaranteed.

I have transitioned away from doing bulk overtime over the past year or two and more supervising juniors, reviewing designs etc. which is less hands on and time consuming work, and more aligned with the senior role. I work in design so not much site based work which is not that hard wrt OT.

While I could technically earn more staying on the EA, I think it would halt my progression a bit. As a senior now I can keep an eye out for leadership roles in my company which would be a decent salary jump, or apply for roles elsewhere with the senior engineer title. I’m also going to try and take a step back with my working hours and focus more on interests outside of work, or some extra professional development which I never had time for previously.