I am fortunate. I still have a job in the middle of Covid, during what appears to be the start of a recession. When my colleagues may worry about the future I have been told I am as safe as one could hope to be. I am underpaid however, and in the past month I have been in talks with a competing agency (lateral move). They reached out, and now I am conflicted. In normal life you could use an offer as leverage, but is that still the case? Does the fact I was promoted EOY 2019 change anything?

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