I got a $55,000 raise by boomeranging

I was in Phoenix making $70,000 at my employer, interviewed elsewhere during the great resignation, got an offer at a Bay Area company making $150,000, resigned and joined the company. Once I was ther

I was in Phoenix making $70,000 at my employer, interviewed elsewhere during the great resignation, got an offer at a Bay Area company making $150,000, resigned and joined the company. Once I was there I realized $150,000 isn't all that much in the Bay Area, reached out to my old boss after about a year and they offered me to come back for $125,000 and a promotion. Went from being the lowest paid person on my team to the highest paid. Why didn't the company just counter offer when I resigned? I'll never know. Company logic I guess. They'd rather just let me leave. Now that I've boomeranged back a lot has changed since I was gone and now I'm the new guy learning everything again but for $125,000. The purpose of this post is to show everyone what's going on in terms of pay disparity. I committed the cardinal sin in corporate world by job hopping, yet I'm paid more than all the folks that stayed loyal to the firm.