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There is your salary. Then there are opportunities for ancillary earnings on the job.

With the right job, your salary won't matter.

Don't pay too much attention to the salary. Find out what the perqs are.

Get a job where the extras make the salary redundant.
Someone's salary is N200,000/month. Outstation allowance is N30k/day all other expenses paid. The job requires about 20 days a month in the field.

What is a static N500k salary a month compared to this package?

Get the full picture before you decide.
The best jobs are usually the ones that come with extra earning opportunities. Preferably on the regular. That way, you can take care of daily recurrent expenses with the extras & save up your salary into a tidy lump sum to use for capital projects over time.
So when you're faced with Job options. Don't get excited at the one offering a static high salary. Look out for the one with paid travel opportunities, performance bonuses & other regular extras. Their monthly pay may be low but the overall will outweigh the high salary job.
Also look out for cost of living & quality of life when you have the option of choosing the city to work in. I've lived in both Lagos & Abuja. Your average daily return cab fair in Abuja is N1,000. Lagos could hit N5,000. Traffic considerations too. Same rent cost. Choose wisely.
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