Most people know changing employers is the most reliable way to get promotions and raises, even though as employees gain experience with a company’s systems the

Most people know changing employers is the most reliable way to get promotions and raises, even though as employees gain experience with a company’s systems they should be more valuable to their existing employers than new ones. Counting on information asymmetry is the only possible explanation. At my startup, not a particularly rich one, we’d try and benchmark salaries for our key staff and adjust it to be competitive.