Evaluating a new offer

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Specializes in Family Practice.

I have a new job offer and wanted to get some opinions on it. I’ve actually already accepted the position, but as a means to vent a little and see what other thoughts are, I’m posting information for comparison. 
My current position was chosen a little bit out of desperation as I graduated right before the pandemic took off and unfortunately did not have a positioned lined up prior to graduation. So I was dead in the water looking for my first NP position. A friend let me know about an internal medicine position. I will alter some details from this point on to avoid identification by anyone who might be lurking. The physician I am working for has a physician wife in a different specialty in the same building. She is currently the office/practice micromanager. Oops, I mean manager…right. 
Current job:

93k, zero benefits (insurance option costs more than my mortgage, no retirement, no bonuses)

2 weeks PTO

Fridays off, but doing charting, lab reviews, occasional patient phone calls from home 1st half of day. 
As I mentioned before, micromanager. That’s bad enough to deal with. When trying to bring up salary and discuss a raise at my 6 month review with proof from EBO report that my collections were at 94% and 6-month period showed ~$220k collected in that time, I was told that she could “barely afford to keep me on”. So there was no salary increase or anything ?. Also had extra work added on seeing patients for her specialty practice with no added income for me. 
To say the least, it has been nice to have Fridays off, but the work environment is pretty toxic and abysmal. 

Job offer:

96k, medical covered for me, 600 for fam add on, IRA with matching after first year, bonuses ($2500 after $200,000 in collections and an additional $2500 for every $30,000 in collections after that). 

half-days on Thursday and Friday with same type of work from home Thursday afternoons. 

office is 1/3 the distance from my house as current job. 
I did clinical at this practice for 2 semesters while in NP school and got a very good feel for how they run and I really enjoyed it. They just didn’t have an opening when I graduated. 

So what would you have done? It seems like a pretty obvious answer, but I wanted to hear others’ opinions. 

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Specializes in Occupational Health.

Not really clear on the posting...these are two separate offer?

If so...the first one blows! The second one is better but just barely?

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I'm just here to learn something.

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Specializes in APRN, FNP-C.

Sounds like your second job offer is an improvement over your first. I wonder why you are in doubt of your decision? Posting on here shows doubt, in my opinion. Is there something else holding you back?

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Specializes in OB.

So the second offer just occurred?  And you're wondering if you should leave your current job for it?  If I got that right, then I would definitely leave and take the 2nd offer.  There are obviously tons of things that stink about your current job, but one of the biggest for me is the office manager being married to the physician you work for.  That, in my opinion, literally never works out for the other employees.

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Specializes in Psychiatry.

You didn't mention PTO for second job.

 

The bonus isn't great for you. It's less than 10% of collections ($2,500 out of every $30,000). It's obviously better than the first.

 

It's clear though that NP salaries are stagnant and falling as are benefits. Oversupply is taking a toll.

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