[gduke2010]

Originally Posted by masraum

Meh, completely standard these days. Many/most companies will pay you as little as they can to keep you, then if you're a good employee and they were getting you on the cheap, they'll try to keep you. They should have been paying you all along.

I've known of lots of folks that left one company for a big raise, then a couple of years down the road, went back to the original company for a big raise over what they'd been making at the place they moved to the first time. But if they'd just stayed, they'd have had to work another 50 years to see that sort of salary increase.

Yep, what I'm thinking.