> Some holes for tech job moves with promotion (sometimes significantly more than 20% jumps), and sometimes middle managers (promotions to different companies c

> Some holes for tech job moves with promotion (sometimes significantly more than 20% jumps), and sometimes middle managers (promotions to different companies can sometimes be much much larger for no apparent reason). The whole point of my market value comment was that if you can get an offer for $X total comp, then if your employer wants to enforce your non-compete, they would have to pay you a 20% (or whatever) premium on that. For the vast majority of employees companies would just stop having non-competes. For higher level employees it might even reduce the amount of stupid "I can get a better raise by switching company" cycle that currently exists. For executive level folk in CA that is functionally how it works already