I was recently promoted to a management position in a different department within the same company about 2 months ago. My job before becoming manager paid about $44/hr working 40 hours a week in LCOL area. The manager job is salary, making about $110k/year.

Anyway, I had an extensive conversation yesterday with my director and we mutually agreed that this new manager position is not a great fit for me. He didn’t want to lose me on his team because he sees a lot of value in me as an IC and he offered me basically my job back in my old department.

Here’s the thing— it’s a large corporation so it’s not as simple as just “refilling” the position. I had to “reapply” but it’s basically a formality to jump through the HR hoops because my director said he’s going to rehire me for the department 100%.

My director doesn’t really have too much of a say in what I would get paid, as it’s all salary bands depending on experience.…