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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you truly are being paid a competitive salary, then stay put.

But I find that shocking if you’ve been at the same company for 18 years. Everyone knows that you get the big jump in salary if you were able to willingly leave on your own terms.

Or maybe look at jumping with the market is better. Again, I would be shocked if your salary is competitive.

Really hard to say more without knowing your role, the type of company for which you work, and in the industry.[/quote]

Her salary has basically doubled over 20 years — im guessing she avoided becoming director or business development. Her $50k salary would be $90k now, making $200k is a nice progression but my spouse made nearly the same progression on the GS scale over that same time.

So for new employers the will see someone resting on their laurels, probably tagging long with one or two contracts and doing her job well, but thats it. Probably could get another contracting job, but you give up stability most likely without a big pay raise.

What exactly is toxic about your job? Anyway to mitigate?[/quote]

The naïveté. Stability in the private sector is an illusion. Just because she’s stuck around (or flown under the radar) for so long, doesn’t mean it’ll always be like that.

And sorry that’s not an insanely impressive salary progression. It’s actually perfectly middle of the road.[/quote]

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