I have worked mainly at nonprofits. Some of them with lots of money, some with hardly any, but salaries are always taken from a relatively fixed budget. I've be

I have worked mainly at nonprofits. Some of them with lots of money, some with hardly any, but salaries are always taken from a relatively fixed budget. I've been fortunate that I've rarely had to ask for raises, but my eagerness to ask for more has absolutely been suppressed by the knowledge that if I got it, someone else wouldn't. (Sometimes my salary is coming from the same pool as my team's, even).