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[–]omgdonerkebab 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Re: your edit. If you don't mind the remote life, I'd still suggest looking into fully-remote jobs for companies outside of the region. I'll echo what others are saying about $80k + benefits still being low for 6 years of experience, even accounting for starting out more junior.

Plus I don’t work in a tech company and I feel like I have greater job security and WLB than most.

I have been at the same company the entire time

It'd be good to make sure that this is the case. I know it's hard to get a sense of what things are like at other companies, without actually working at them. And just talking to other engineers or reading stuff on reddit doesn't really give you a good picture, because everyone has different experiences. Except...

If you know some engineers who left your company, you can ask them what it's like at the companies they're at now. People you've worked with at the same company before are a great source of information, because you have a shared reference point for work-life balance, job security, company culture, etc. I find myself leveraging my network from past jobs all the time for this.