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You resigned, and suddenly there is money on the table that was not there last week. The useful question is not whether the number is bigger. It is whether anything that made you start looking is actually different now.
We have a stake in your answer, so you are not getting one. Re:Sourced is a recruitment agency. If you accept the counter-offer, we are not paid. A tool from us that concluded "decline it" every time would be worthless, and obviously so. This gives you no verdict and no score: it sets out what the counter changes and what it leaves alone. If your answers favour staying, it will say so. Nothing you type is uploaded.
Your role
The numbers
Base salary, in thousands. Leave the new offer blank if you have not got one yet.
Why you started looking
Tick what was true. Then, for each one, tick whether the counter genuinely deals with it. We do not guess that part: guessing it is where the thumb would go on the scale.
What actually changed
Reasons addressed
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Against the published band
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No conclusion is offered on purpose. The points above pull in different directions and only you know how much each one weighs. If you want a second opinion from someone with no stake in it, ask a person who has worked with you, not a recruiter and not a tool.
How to read it
It separates two things that a counter-offer conversation usually mixes together: the money, and the reasons you were looking. The money is easy to compare and easy to move. The reasons are neither, and they are what actually made you update your CV.
The headline is the only number here, and it is a fact rather than an opinion: how many of the reasons you listed the counter deals with, by your own answer. Everything below it is an observation with the reasoning attached, marked for which way it points rather than scored.
The one part that is externally verifiable is where the three figures sit against the published band for your role, drawn from the same 2026 accepted-offer dataset as the Salary Checker and the Salary Index. A counter that only reaches the floor of the band has brought you to market, not past it, and that is worth knowing before you weigh anything else.
Two things we publish elsewhere are worth repeating here. If the money was approvable this week, it was approvable last week, and it is fair to ask what it took to surface it. And a large share of people who accept a counter-offer leave within a year anyway, which suggests the counter often addresses the resignation rather than the reason for it. Neither of those is a rule about your situation. See should I accept a counter-offer for the four questions in full, including when staying is the right call, and how to negotiate a tech salary for the wider picture.
If you do stay, get the non-money parts in writing with dates. Scope, title, reporting line, flexibility. Those are the parts that most often evaporate once the resignation is no longer fresh.
Common questions
There is no general answer, which is why this tool does not give you one. A counter-offer typically fixes the money but not the reasons you were looking, and a large share of people who accept one leave within a year anyway. If a raise was available all along, it is worth asking why it took a resignation to surface it. Counter-offers are best treated as information, not a plan.
Because we are a recruitment agency and we are not paid if you stay. That is a real conflict of interest, and a tool from us that concluded "decline it" every time would be worthless. So it gives no verdict and no score: it sets out what the counter changes and what it leaves alone, and the decision stays yours. If the inputs favour staying, it says so.
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Get the non-money parts in writing with dates: the scope change, the title, the reporting line, the flexibility. Those are the parts that most often evaporate once the resignation is no longer fresh. Also ask whether your next scheduled review is now on top of this increase or absorbed by it.