> My experience has run contrary to this. No matter how good of a job I do at work, I've never gotten a significant pay bump, certainly nothing on the order of

> My experience has run contrary to this. No matter how good of a job I do at work, I've never gotten a significant pay bump, certainly nothing on the order of 50%. And you most likely never will. That's when you realize you've out-grown your position and you jump ship to a new job.