Just thinking out loud here. Could it be that after 5 or so years engineers are in long term relationships, perhaps kids, etc and thus are less inclined to roc

Just thinking out loud here. Could it be that after 5 or so years engineers are in long term relationships, perhaps kids, etc and thus are less inclined to rock the boat and ask for a significant raise. Could it be that a lot of developers leave after about 5 years or so and go into other fields (management, startups, etc) so that the people left in the job for 10+ years are actually comfortable with just plodding along? Then again I'm left thinking that it could be because there actually isn't much of a difference between a developer with 5 and one with 10 years of experience (in the general sense). This is interesting to me, since I've just gone past the whole 5 years of experience thing, hit a limit with one company, and moved elsewhere for nearly 2x the money. Wondering what/where I should go next.