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How to Respond to a Counteroffer

The number appeared the day you resigned because a cost that was theoretical became a date in a calendar. A counteroffer is priced against replacing you this quarter — not against what you are worth — and money removes the reason to go without changing the reason you wanted to. You get the reply to send today, the message for whichever way you go, and what has to be in writing first. No invented statistics, and it will not tell you which way to decide.

Sample counteroffer reply

Generated for: Operations coordinator who resigned on Tuesday, offered 12% and “a conversation about the title in the spring” on Thursday, with a start date four weeks out

The reply to send today — Subject: Thank you — and a date

The real one is built on what was actually offered, why you were leaving, and what you've decided to do about it. The first one is free — no card. After that, $9.99 for a single credit or $49.99 for ten.

First one is free — no card needed.

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Your Job Title *

How Long You’ve Been in the Role (optional)

Where This Actually Stands *

These are not the same conversation and the branch changes the advice. They moved firstmeans there is nothing to weigh it against yet — that is information about this employer, not an offer. An offer you haven’t mentioned turns on one question: would you actually stay for a good enough counter? If not, telling them buys nothing. And a title or a promise is the hardest one to read, because what is changed now and what is promised later look identical in an email.

What You Want To Do Next *

This decides which message gets written. There is no “tell me what to do” option on purpose: the decision turns on whether money was genuinely why you were leaving, and nobody else can answer that. Get it in writingis the highest-value move on this page and works from any position — a retention offer is a change to your terms, and a refusal to put it in writing is itself an answer.

What Was Actually Said — and Anything to Keep Out (optional)

Three things carry this. What was actually offered— the number, whether it is base or a one-off, the effective date, and anything promised for later rather than changed now, in the words they used. The real reason you were leaving, even if it is not the one you gave, because that is the question the whole decision turns on. And where the other side is: whether anything is signed, what start date they are holding, and how much time you genuinely have. We never invent a figure, a notice period or a contractual rule: anything not in this box comes back as a bracketed placeholder or as a question to ask. Refer to people by role, no names, and nothing you’d rather not have forwarded.

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