Some of the detail is going to be specific to your country/city's job market, but I would have thought even if the average worker makes inflation (or less) it w

Some of the detail is going to be specific to your country/city's job market, but I would have thought even if the average worker makes inflation (or less) it would be normal for high performing white collar workers to receive some promotions or similar rises over the course of 10 years. I imagine some of the company's junior staff have had actual promotions with significant raises in addition to low periodic raises; even if you started at the top level, perhaps your own increased amount of job responsibility and improvements to company performance in 10 years is comparable. At least the arrangement appears to have been beneficial to enter at the time.