Originally Posted by
Whiplash6
As long as you admit this retention bonus a) isn't a pay raise and b) won't actually retain you, I wouldn't care if it were a check for $26,666.
Good for you on a personal level. I'm sure this money that brings your overall pay back to industry standard helps tremendously for you and your family. But it's not a pay raise, it's a conditional bonus.
It's all semantics.
Let's say they pay you $5 an hour and you get a "bonus" of $15000 a month, are you going to turn it down based on the fact that you are taking a significant hourly cut?
Money in my pocket.