Lightroom Exporting V Small jpeg

Hi,
Hope someone can help.
I am doing minor edits in lightroom, before exporting jpgs to Photoshop for creative edits.
Even using the maximum export size, a 20mb RAW file turns into a 4mb jpg. Then, when further edits are done in Photoshop, and resaved (using Autoloader), the file size reduces to just 2mb.
The image dimensions are constant throughout, 3960 × 2640. This doesn't seem right to me. I have checked setting again and agin, and from what I can see max file sizes are being used.
I want to give clients image larger than 2mb. Can someone help?
Thanks in advance
Rich

Workflow will be:
RAWs in folder A
Edit in Lightroom the acceptable photos, and export to Folder B as TIF
Open Folder B images in PS and Edit accordingly, then save in Folder C
On completion, folder B (TIF's will be deleted)
(these are usually wedding photos, so ultimately, the RAW's will be deleted too, leaving just the jpgs as back up)
You are just making extra work for yourself by putting these things in separate folders. They could all go in a single folder, with no confusion whatsoever.
Furthermore, it seems that no one has discussed this yet, but EXPORT to Photoshop isn't really the best way to go. You would want to use the Lightroom command Edit In ... (right click on a photo and select Edit In), this is a better workflow since once you have saved the edits from Photoshop and close the image in Photoshop, the edited photo now appears in LR withou you having to import it.
I don't understand why you would want to delete the RAWs and TIFs, to my mind this is a horrible practice. If you do that, you can never go back; the best you quality you will ever have is the quality of the JPGs. Now I don't know your business, but it seems to me if the clients ever ask for the photos to be re-edited in some way, you're going to have to start from the JPGs rather than the RAWs, and this will never result in as "high quality" as if you start from the RAWs.
Lastly, "leaving just the jpgs as back up" -- no, the JPGs are not backup, they are unrelated to the concept of backup; and furthermore they are the only copy of the photo you have. If your hard disk crashes, your photos are lost. You now have ZERO copies of these photos, and I'm guessing that both you and your clients would be very unhappy about that. A true high quality backup strategy would be to save the RAWs, and save the TIFs and make backups of both on a different physical disk. Then you have originals and at least one backup on a different disk. The JPGs are what is truly expendable here.

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