You only have my word for it, but I've had the highest marks from both co-workers and managers at reviews and have gotten higher than average raises. But my la

You only have my word for it, but I've had the highest marks from both co-workers and managers at reviews and have gotten higher than average raises. But my last job was for a consulting company and we finished the job in 10 months and it wasn't that clear what other gig I would be moved to so I accepted a job with someone who I had worked with before and was now a technical manager (another point that I'm not someone you wouldn't want to work with). My job before that I finished a project in 18 months and was transitioning into maintenance mode. I was bored and under paid, so I took another job offer also with someone I had worked with before. Each of these were 10-15% raises, so that was incentive too. So your intuition might fit some cases, but definitely not all.