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Just tell them the truth - your wife decided to prostitute herself to make up the difference and now you can take their generous offer of 60% lower than market rate!

/S

You will not work on interesting things, you will be shit on from every angle at that job, I guarantee. Consider a bullet dodged.

If you insist on making bad decisions in life.... I would send them a thank you for the generous offer. You will compare with your current comp (screenshot bank deposit), and other offers (letter attached with company name whited out), and with additional offers I expect later in the week. I will be in contact no later than Friday if this works out to be the best opportunity. Thank you for you and your teams time, You.

Be sure to CC any hiring managers if you can (check interview invites). If they actually want you for a valued position, they will apologize and correct the offer. If they just want someone to pee on, they won't.