Based on experience around me (ie friends etc), the slightly depressing conclusion is that you will have more raises if you change of company on a regular basis (ie each 12 to 24 months).
I've even seen people leave their company, then one year after, being proposed a lot more money by the very same company they left one year before, while the coworkers wages had barely evolved.
The situation is different on high paying jobs (still around me), where companies apparently try to ensure people won't leave (eg: > 100k€ per year + 15 weeks of holidays per year for a european insurance job I know of).
The is very true, a friend of mine is an accountant and early on in his career changed jobs every year for four years. In that time he doubled his salary. I also managed to bump my salary 30% by quitting a company and coming back a year later.
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Based on experience around me (ie friends etc), the slightly depressing conclusion is that you will have more raises if you change of company on a regular basis (ie each 12 to 24 months).
I've even seen people leave their company, then one year after, being proposed a lot more money by the very same company they left one year before, while the coworkers wages had barely evolved.
The situation is different on high paying jobs (still around me), where companies apparently try to ensure people won't leave (eg: > 100k€ per year + 15 weeks of holidays per year for a european insurance job I know of).
The is very true, a friend of mine is an accountant and early on in his career changed jobs every year for four years. In that time he doubled his salary. I also managed to bump my salary 30% by quitting a company and coming back a year later.
15 weeks ? Are you absolutely certain?
What would a person need to learn to get that kind of job?
I guess you need to learn some kind of luck at this stage :)