Job switching is the most effective way to pressure the employer to raise and keep the high salary. If you pay well, good engineers swarm to apply the job. Jo

Job switching is the most effective way to pressure the employer to raise and keep the high salary. If you pay well, good engineers swarm to apply the job. Job switching is the best opportunity to negotiate your salary for both current and next employers. "If current employer don't pay more, I'll leave." "If the next would-be employer don't pay more, I'll stick with the current job." Also, it pressures existing employers to raise and keep the high salary because if they don't, they'll lose the good engineers to the competitors. So the fact there are many job switching engineers benefits those who don't switch job that often.