Yeah, that has not been my experience.  I&#x27;ve worked for a big company for 4-ish years.  Started 40% below article&#x27;s suggested &quot;middling&quot; salary because I didn&#x27;t negotiate (and starting salaries were 30% lower 4 years ago, apparently).<p>Negotiated a 40%(!) raise after 1.5 years because I was kicking ass and <i>had +40% offers in hand</i>(!) from other BigCo&#x27;s that I interviewed at.<p>Since then I&#x27;ve been getting 2-3% cost-of-living raises annually.  I would say my performance is above average, but that&#x27;s my opinion.<p>Definitely not seeing 10% or $30k annual raises and my total pay is significantly below $250k still.  Maybe I need to do another round of external interviewing again.<p>That being said, I like my work and have good benefits and really good compensation compared to non-tech work.