I want to commend you on taking the opportunity to examine the situation rather than just letting it go. It can be really hard to break out of a rut. While ev

I want to commend you on taking the opportunity to examine the situation rather than just letting it go. It can be really hard to break out of a rut. While everyone else is suggesting the obvious; find someone who will pay you more, I'm going to offer a slightly different angle because when you mention other people who are underperforming are being considered and that you are good at office politics, it raises a red flag for me. First, I would recommend taking a long look at your communication skills. Growing in the workplace is often about effectively selling your vision and then making sure it gets executed. Whether its a corporate strategy or a update to an internal microservice, you're going to need to get people to buy-in to your ideas. Just because you can do the work, doesn't mean you can get other people to do the work too. Second, another concern of mine is that you aren't properly understanding the goals of the company, or those of your immediate supervisors at least. If you put in an insane amount if hours and hit all your deadlines, but people who work less and cause delays are being considered for a promotion instead of you, it leads me to believe you might be doing things you aren't asked to do, which leads me to believe you might be a bit of a rogue employee, always doing what you think is best even if it's not what your supervisor wanted. Finally, another nod to communication skills. The fact that you put in so much time and your colleagues might not be, makes me wonder if you don't work well in a team. If you're a solo 10xer, great! but you still have to work with other people if you want to grow within a company. regardless, the absolute most important thing is that you are very correct to question the circumstance. Something has to change!