Re:Ask HN: How often do you expect a raise in salary?
by TheCoelacanth on Friday December 12, 2014 @02:32PM
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That's the easiest way to get big raises, but you should expect at least a few percent raise every year without switching jobs. Otherwise you are taking an effective pay cut after inflation.
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Re:Ask HN: How often do you expect a raise in salary?
by marssaxman on Saturday December 13, 2014 @07:21PM
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Sure, but if you're going to work the kind of job that has a regular cycle of performance reviews and raises, you're going to be wasting a few percent of your working year dealing with the bureaucracy involved in the review process. You're probably also going to be biasing the choices you make about your everyday work toward whatever it is the review process measures, instead of just doing whatever needs to be done to build & ship your product.
I'd rather accept inflation as a fact of life and waste no time thinking about performance reviews. Whatever trivial regular raises I might get through such a process will be inconsequential compared to whatever I can expect by finding a new job on a bigger project somewhere else.