You should try getting an offer at another place. Even if it's not a paradigm shift for your career. It might be a good time to test if your current employer is willing to part ways with you or if they come to the table. You mentioned in another comment in here that you didnt really see a path to advance at your current job. Another offer might make your current place open up some avenues for you. I took an offer for another job on Friday last week. My direct boss didn't even counter offer. By Tuesday this week several of the teams I do work for came forward and said i was too valuable to part with. Today upper management pulled me into a meeting and beat the offer which was not small ( roughly 4k a month raise after taxes) and made me technical lead on a new team that will be put together that I will oversee the technical side of. I've been at my current employer for 6 years and watched management change almost yearly for my sub organization. I believe in the product but the rapid shifts in management caused them to lose track of all the stuff i was doing. Now i just have to write an offer residence letter to the place that was courting me which is imo tough to do just because I've got a friend who vouched for me there and i feel like im putting him in a lurch.
There have been people that have tried what you said here, that of negotiating a better offer. The company is pretty clear-cut, they don't do that. The only person I know of that did manage to get a better offer was being criminally underpaid already, but he said the offer couldn't beat the offer+benefits at his new job. (He was making $17 for a job that should have been paying $25-27)
They aren't going to counter, so my best bet is to just move on.
An hr friend of mine told me that I should never accept a counter offer.
Typically businesses have a fund they use to pay the counter offer for that year. When the next fiscal year starts that extra salary expense is transferred to your local department. At which point you are probably one of the highest salaries in your group. And will be the first head on the chopping block. You will now be seen as disloyal and overpaid. May even be labeled and monitored as an insider threat.
Not something I want to mess with.
It's always been advised not to take a counter, since you're now in the spotlight.
I've got some other opportunities panning out here in a few months anyway if they want to go that route. I've been trying to train my replacement for 4 years and haven't found anyone who could actually accomplish the task yet, It's not hard to be indispensable when everyone is just copying what the other guy is doing. The thing with them is they absolutely need someone with a plan and they have no one really capable of coming up with one. So far ive been the only one successful at putting a dent in some of the messes that got created over the years mostly through neglect and people not knowing any better.
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