> If you want a raise the best thing you can do is find a new job.

It is true, but i am not sure it is a good long term strategy, i suspect that too much job hopping doesn't look good on the resume.

Also changing jobs becomes harder with age, i am fifty one years old, and last time around, when forced to look for a new job, I found that it was quite a bit of a challenge (being said that, i need to feed my family, so that i really need a raise :-( )