At the end of 2022, just before Christmas, the college that I worked for offered me $25,000 to quit.
They offered this to all full-time employees—buyouts were a strategy they used when the budget was especially lean. My colleagues whispered that this was a terrible offer. The $25K would shrink to $18K after taxes. If you left without another job lined up, how many months of expenses would that cover?
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