Sure, but again, that is a highly localized decision based on your judgement. There wasn&#x27;t a formula that said you should give raises once market rates exceeded your payroll by x percent. I think tactical moves like the one you made are great.<p>On your other point about companies being inefficient, I think we should stop worrying about whether employers or companies in aggregate are being efficient. In fact, I want them to be inefficient. It gives people more opportunities to take advantage of inefficiencies.<p>I suspect we have some sort of bias in which we apply fairness rules that are good for individuals in a community and apply it to &quot;the system&quot; which is not just a scaled up version of individuals interacting which either. We like to think big companies operate as a unified entity, but really, there&#x27;s a lot of shit going on under the hood that may lead to very weird &quot;irrational&quot; decisions, many of which an individual could take advantage of.<p>Generally, I just prefer people to be more opportunistic, rather than trying to make sense out of non-sensical systems.