The most common reason to decline a job offer is that the salary is too low. Other reasons might include the commute, the company culture, or a lack of opportunity for advancement.
- Thank you very much for offering me the job. After careful consideration, I have decided to decline.
- Thank you for considering me for the position. I appreciate the offer, but I have decided to decline.
- Thank you for the job offer. I appreciate your confidence in me, but I am sorry to say that I must decline.
- Thank you for the offer of employment. However, I regret to inform you that I must decline.
- I am grateful to you for offering me the position of [job title], but I regretfully decline.
- Thank you very much for your offer of employment. Unfortunately, I have decided to decline.
- Thank you for offering me the position of [job title]. However, after careful consideration, I have decided that it is not right for me and so must decline.
- Thank you for your offer of employment as [job title], which I received on [date]. After due consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept it as it does not suit my current circumstances/plans.
- Thank you very much for offering me the job of [job title] in your company’s [department/division]. However, after giving it careful thought, I have decided that it is not quite what I am looking for at this stage in my career and so must reluctantly decline your kind offer.
- Thank you very much indeed for your letter dated [date] and enclosing details of the post of [job title] in your company’s [department/division]. It was most kind of you to think of me in connection with this post, and very flattering too; but after due consideration I have come to the conclusion that it would not really be suitable for me and so must ask you to please excuse me from giving it any further consideration.
- I thank you very much indeed for your most generous offer of employment with a starting salary of $[amount], dated [date]. This is a truly remarkable opportunity which I would love nothing more than to accept immediately; however there are a number of other important factors which need to be considered before any final decision can be made, and so I would ask if I might have a little more time before replying definitively one way or another?
- I would like to thank you most sincerely for having offered me the post of [job title], at a salary of $[amount], dated [date]; this is an excellent opportunity which interests me greatly. However I feel I ought to mention that I would like some time to consider this matter further before making any firm commitment one way or another.
- I am truly interested in taking up such an attractive proposition as that which was outlined in your letter dated [date]; however there are one or two important points which need clarification before any final decision can be made.