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You don't switch jobs for no additional dollars unless you are desperate to get out. If you stay with your current employer you will get caught up to the pay curve soon if for no other reason than because corporate types hate pay differentials. If you go to company B you will have gotten the most they are willing to pay you as your salary on day one and they will hold your entry salary against you for the next few years as you ask for raises, because they'll tell you you came in higher than anyone else in your position. If money is the only issue, where you are is the better deal. Did company B tell you about benefits probabtion and the 401(k) match and pension not kicking in for 12 to 24 months for new hires? How does the pension compare if you put more years in at company A before leaving?

Bottom line is that if Company B doesn't value you enough to pay you a premium to go there, they don't value your skills and won't value your work enough to pay you what you deserve. Go to work for them only if they are the employer you have always dreamed of or if going there opens oportunities you don't currently have.

Why would you go through the hassel of changing jobs for no more money? It's always seductive to have someone want you, but really, why would you switch jobs for no more money? If you have a good reason why you want to work for company B at the same salary, go for it. If you want what you're worth, wait for company C. No one is going to recruit you so soon after taking a new job, so if you take the company B job, be prepared to stay there a couple of years.