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Current role: clinical research coordinator making around $65k at a stand-alone children's hospital affiliated with a large university in a large California metro area. I signed a retention bonus for $10k last April, which if I left would be prorated by the number of months I didn't satisfy (i.e. I'd pay some back if I left early, but they gave the full $10k net up front). Job currently has medical with HSA, dental, vision that I contribute to the costs to, plus a 75% subsidized Metro pass. Not really a path for me forward promotion-wise to jack up my salary and savings. Edit: includes 401(k)/403(b) as part of the benefits package; contributing 10% to Roth 401(k), 10% to 401(k), 3% to Roth 403(b), 3% to 403(b).
Offer: a local recruiter reached out to me and I just landed a clinical research coordinator role at a just-public company. Salary would be $115k, bonus of 7% annually (60% based on personal performance and 40% based on corporate performance). Equity grant of $25k (stock trading ca. $6.50 per share), 25% vesting on the first anniversary, then quarterly thereafter. All benefits (health with HSA, dental, vision, et cetera) are fully paid for by the company. 401(k) through Voya, I think, with a 2% company match. Also includes 10 days of PTO front-loaded annually on anniversary date that rolls over year-to-year, a corporate shutdown for two weeks at year-end, and 80 hours of annual sick leave that does not accrue (use it or lose it). Looks like there is a definite path forward to jack up my salary and savings. Job would start January 4th, or some other negotiable time. I could max my retirement/HSA accounts, and be able to stockpile money for education int he future with this job. Edit: I have not negotiated the offer yet, this was the preliminary offer that came today and expires next Monday, 11/29.
Nothing else would change: I'd still live at home, just stockpiling money.
Yes, the financials scream "take this and leave the hospital behind!". That said, I have an amazing attending I work under, and we just started a new study for which we were the first site to randomize a subject internationally and are the only site with an active subject. The other issue is that the nurse I worked with is still at the hospital, but took a lead position and is no longer running studies with me. So if I leave, my attending has no one.
I need the wisdom of this crowd of people who know more than I do about life, and how to navigate this.
Offer: a local recruiter reached out to me and I just landed a clinical research coordinator role at a just-public company. Salary would be $115k, bonus of 7% annually (60% based on personal performance and 40% based on corporate performance). Equity grant of $25k (stock trading ca. $6.50 per share), 25% vesting on the first anniversary, then quarterly thereafter. All benefits (health with HSA, dental, vision, et cetera) are fully paid for by the company. 401(k) through Voya, I think, with a 2% company match. Also includes 10 days of PTO front-loaded annually on anniversary date that rolls over year-to-year, a corporate shutdown for two weeks at year-end, and 80 hours of annual sick leave that does not accrue (use it or lose it). Looks like there is a definite path forward to jack up my salary and savings. Job would start January 4th, or some other negotiable time. I could max my retirement/HSA accounts, and be able to stockpile money for education int he future with this job. Edit: I have not negotiated the offer yet, this was the preliminary offer that came today and expires next Monday, 11/29.
Nothing else would change: I'd still live at home, just stockpiling money.
Yes, the financials scream "take this and leave the hospital behind!". That said, I have an amazing attending I work under, and we just started a new study for which we were the first site to randomize a subject internationally and are the only site with an active subject. The other issue is that the nurse I worked with is still at the hospital, but took a lead position and is no longer running studies with me. So if I leave, my attending has no one.
I need the wisdom of this crowd of people who know more than I do about life, and how to navigate this.
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