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Hello!
For reference, I'm a second year neuropsych postdoc!
I was recently offered a position at a hospital which has an expectation of 36 billable hours per week and is offering me 110k in a low CoL area, which also happens to be my hometown. In this job I would be one of two neuropsychologists (outpatient), have been given the option of using a psychometrist or doing my own testing (or a mix), and will not have any supervisees.
My postdoc has "offered" me the opportunity to stay but has not yet given me a formal job offer yet, so I can't exactly do any sort of exact comparison. They keep saying they'll send me the formal offer in "a week or two" but it's been four months. At this point, I don't know how much longer I can wait because I am afraid of missing out on other opportunities only for them to low ball me because at that point I won't have any other offers. I haven't had the best experience here and I don't love the area, but my partner loves their job and makes decent money, which is mostly why I'd consider staying. I haven't seen any other jobs in the area either, so it's going to come down to this one or the one in my hometown. Apparently this one also require 36 billable hours but leadership and my supervisor (who has weirdly been intimately involved in discussions regarding my salary?) have made repeated statements about me being "entitled" for wanting to make 100k per year, so I don't have high hopes about what they might offer me salary wise.
I've been obsessing over this decision for weeks and I am stuck. I don't know what to do!
For reference, I'm a second year neuropsych postdoc!
I was recently offered a position at a hospital which has an expectation of 36 billable hours per week and is offering me 110k in a low CoL area, which also happens to be my hometown. In this job I would be one of two neuropsychologists (outpatient), have been given the option of using a psychometrist or doing my own testing (or a mix), and will not have any supervisees.
My postdoc has "offered" me the opportunity to stay but has not yet given me a formal job offer yet, so I can't exactly do any sort of exact comparison. They keep saying they'll send me the formal offer in "a week or two" but it's been four months. At this point, I don't know how much longer I can wait because I am afraid of missing out on other opportunities only for them to low ball me because at that point I won't have any other offers. I haven't had the best experience here and I don't love the area, but my partner loves their job and makes decent money, which is mostly why I'd consider staying. I haven't seen any other jobs in the area either, so it's going to come down to this one or the one in my hometown. Apparently this one also require 36 billable hours but leadership and my supervisor (who has weirdly been intimately involved in discussions regarding my salary?) have made repeated statements about me being "entitled" for wanting to make 100k per year, so I don't have high hopes about what they might offer me salary wise.
I've been obsessing over this decision for weeks and I am stuck. I don't know what to do!
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