That matters, but not always. you might want to move to a different team for example. You could be valuable to the people that decide your pay check, but if you

That matters, but not always. you might want to move to a different team for example. You could be valuable to the people that decide your pay check, but if you made it politically untenable to promote you or give you a pay raise, they'll still value you, but only right where you are. They'd want to help you out more, but then they would lose a valuable resource and it would hurt them, or they'd have to pay others more. But if others also value you, then they'll snatch you out of your old leadership's claws, or it might be easier to create a "special" position just for you so you can get paid more, if everyone outside of your managers and team like you enough to not have a problem with it.