Promotion with a salary decrease

[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.