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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I wish I was a troll here. The “best” or “worst” in all of it is that the person who delivered the news is not my boss. It is a Practice Leader - I spoke with this person maybe like twice last year. It was beyond clear that this person had no idea what I do in my daily work. [/quote]

Sounds like you're in consulting and probably pretty junior.  Consulting has an insidious way of extracting a lot of effort from you without providing monetary compensation in return (at least at junior levels).  You can approach it one of two ways IMO:

1) Continue to work hard but realize that you're not going to get raises commensurate with your effort.  Instead you'll get a lot of valuable experience that you can parlay into your exit opportunity in a few years.
2) Work less intensely with the understanding that you may not get promoted as fast as you would otherwise, but that performing at anything about the 90th percentile has quickly diminishing returns anyhow.  You'll still be successful, just not a rock star.

Whatever path you take, be mindful of your mental health and protect against burnout.  I've seen a lot of young women suffer from it.  You hopefully have much too long of a life ahead of you to peak at this stage for the sake of ultimately unfulfilled promises. [/quote]

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