To me the best defence is just always making sure you can later get what you are paid somewhere else. The people who take salary cuts later in life seem to be o

To me the best defence is just always making sure you can later get what you are paid somewhere else. The people who take salary cuts later in life seem to be old people who didn't keep their skills up or adapt to a changing world where degrees were an ever harder wall to break through. If you are regularly applying for jobs, it should be apparent when your value is declining.