Okay, slight adjustment to fix that: the pay is the higher of the old job's pay (at its peak during your employment period there) or the new job's pay.
huh. at the peak i was making $1M a year. now i’m not worse but im getting much less because have you seen the stock market?
that’s the problem with government “regulations”: unintended consequences. and lack of personal responsibility: “ah, we didn’t think of that, well, sucks to be you”