That dev's salary is higher than mine
Quick poll:  Has anybody here ever received a year-end salary increase on the same order of magnitude as what they'd get from simply switching jobs?I didn't think so.Early in your career, your market value increases so fast that there's simply no way a percentage raise can keep up.I remember a situation at my 2nd job after college, where I knew that I was worth almost double what they were paying me.  I told them as much and laid out the case as to why.  They bent over backward and scraped together something like a 20% raise, which they probably thought was pretty good.Of course, on top of a junior dev salary it was still way out of line with what I should have been at.  I polished up the resume and within a couple weeks I accepted an offer for roughly double my pre-raise salary.  At my exit interview I told them how much I loved working there (it really was the best job I ever had), but I just couldn't afford to leave that much on the table.It was probably the smartest career move I could have made, and it really drove home the point:  You don't adjust your salary through raises in this industry.  If you want to be paid what you deserve, you need to switch jobs.