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jh937hfiu3hrhv9 t1_ja8inm2 wrote

What work do you do? I have never known anybody to get pay raises like that.

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sea_dev OP t1_ja8l4ll wrote

I'm a software engineer, but all of my pay raises are from changing companies.

  • I started 2012 working a part time job that would turn full time when I graduated, but I left for another job paying more when I graduated. ($65k salary)
  • In 2013 I left that job and moved to Seattle to work for a large software company. ($100k salary)
  • In 2017 I left that software company for another one. ($135k salary)
  • In 2018 I left that one for another company ($165k salary)
  • In 2022 I left that one for another company ($205k salary)

Every time I switched I also received signing bonuses and every job gave me stock bonuses to supplement my salary.

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jh937hfiu3hrhv9 t1_ja8lo7x wrote

Too bad other industries are not so flush with cash to dole out.

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5th_degree_burns t1_ja8khck wrote

May be positional changes. I took a job on a help desk to get into the company I currently work for. First positional change netted me an extra 40k, last one was another 80k. The best way to get a 'raise' is usually to move your way up or change employers. At least in the US.

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jh937hfiu3hrhv9 t1_ja8lshd wrote

In what industry?

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5th_degree_burns t1_ja8mspx wrote

I started in IT and moved into our RnD dept. I'm a cloud infrastructure engineer/devops engineer.

EDIT - looks like OP and I are in similar-ish fields and they have a similar experience. It does kind of suck, but it is what it is.

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jh937hfiu3hrhv9 t1_ja8n6ag wrote

Too bad other industries are not so flush with cash to dole out.

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5th_degree_burns t1_ja8o5qq wrote

The sad thing is that a lot of other industries are making money hand over fist and simply don't pay. I work for a corporate entity that (comically) isn't bad in regards to executive comp vs employee comp, and our CEO still makes 134 times the median salary. I think the US national average in that stat was that CEOs make 399 times the salary of the median employee. That's fucked up.

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DoeCommaJohn t1_jacjmr8 wrote

If you job hop, you can make a lot more (on average, 50%, meaning lots make more) money than staying with the same company, so it’s not crazy to think somebody could see this kind of raises

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