Submitted by kittypwitty t3_10qdqng in personalfinance
Jwing01 t1_j6pj2fj wrote
You won't get this kind of jump in most fields in year 1. It's not just performance, but sustained performance over time on key business results, that gets you the biggest raises in place.
In my field, they don't like hearing it, but most 1st year "rock stars" did great but aren't generally on critical business needs. This doesn't mean they didn't deliver value.
Expect 5% as a top performer. If you think that's unfair, try switching jobs, but depth generally beats breadth in the first 5 years in a technical field.
At 35, I have doubled my salary in the past 4 years alone from what it was 4 years ago, but the other first 8 or so years I went up about 30% total.
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