Individual Contributor or Manager of 4?

I have about 6 yrs of exp and have managing a team of 4 for about a year. Recently in a performance review my manager commented that I was always a top tier bucket as an individual but as a manager, I was slightly worse off performance wise.

I’ve been looking at another opp which is about 20% more comp but is an individual contributor. Is being a manager all it’s cracked up to be? Should I even consider since I’m early in my career?

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I am IC track and happy with my salary. But don’t run away from the first negative feedback. Over the long term, being a manager is more transferable.

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If you have long-term career aspirations of climbing the corporate ladder higher, then I agree with Manager 1 that you’ll have more potential for this future advancement if you invest now in manager training and understand how to improve your leadership skills. If corporate advancement isn’t in your long-term interests, there are still a few individual contributor roles in many companies that pay decently, such as in sales or product management (if those align with your area of expertise).

Some people are better as managers and some aren't. Personally if you can get more comp doing individual work, that is what I would do. Its not worth the added stress of managing people.

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