Went to a smaller refiner - 20% compensation increase (salary & bonus). No giant corporate office full of "experts", "chiefs", "advisors", etc. Work done in house at the sites, no BTC's, GBC's, etc. Work is done efficiently and most importantly, correctly, the first time. It is a pleasure again to come into the office every day. No shuffling the deck of people every 6 months, so that "decision makers" can run /hide from how horrible things are run. No "ticketing system" full of unanswered, or supposedly resolved and closed tickets that still need to be addressed. The only thing I lost was saying that I worked at EXXONMOBIL! Seeing that most of my new coworkers came from places like XOM, Shell, BP, Dow, etc., it's was eye-opening to find out that saying you work for XOM may be more of a hinderance/anchor in your career, as you are thought of as a delegator of work/ticket enterer, as opposed to someone that does real work (how accurate)! Good riddance XOM!
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If NRE are able to stay beyond age 55 and you are pension eligible. Your 10% per year increase in lump sum if effectively part of your compensation. For a 2 million lump sum, (at CL 29 mid point with 37 YEE) that is worth 200k per year on top of your base +RSU.
@OP A 20% pay bump is standard for a job-hop. Typically the main reason people leave.
This “it’s not about the money” BS needs to meet the business end of a blowtorch ASAP.
@OP left a year ago but still thinking about EM?
Are you still upset at being PIPd? Sorry you couldn’t make it at EM