Sometimes a company will try to change your decision by offering you more money.  It is important to note that accepting a counter offer almost NEVER works out in the long run. 

Here are some reasons why:

• You’ve made your employer aware that you are unhappy.  From this day forward your loyalty will ALWAYS be in question.
  
  
• When promotion time comes around, your employer will remember who is loyal and who is not.
  
  
• When times get tough, your employer may begin the cutbacks with you.  They will remember the day you resigned instead of all the hard work you did.
  
  
• Where did the money for the counteroffer come from?  Every company has a salary guideline that must be followed.  Did you just get offered your next raise early?
  
  
• Your company may immediately start looking for a new person at a lesser price. They may give you a little more now, but it's only to get them through until they find your replacement.
  
  
• The same reasons that caused you to be unhappy will repeat themselves in the future.  Why did you begin a job search in the first place and what has changed?
  
  
• Statistics show that if you accept a counter offer the odds are approximately eighty per cent that you will not be there in six months. Fifty per cent leave voluntarily and the rest get terminated.
  
  
• Accepting a counter offer should be an insult to your intelligence and a blow to your personal pride ---- you have been bought.
  
  
• You may lose respect among your peers and subordinates.
  
  
• Realize what kind of company you work for if you have to threaten resignation for them to pay you what you are worth.