"There's simply no way that you can convey to a company that they need to pay you twice as much as they did when they hired you 3 years ago." You can at smart

"There's simply no way that you can convey to a company that they need to pay you twice as much as they did when they hired you 3 years ago." You can at smart small companies. My salary tripled in the 5 years I spent at my first programming job. I admittedly took a really small salary because I hadn't finished school and had no real world experience.