[dylan604]

The saying goes that if you want a raise, you have to negotiate for it at your new job. Internal promotions typically make less than an outsider coming in for the same position. Some corps say that pay bumps have a max, so internal employees hit that max when getting promoted even though that max is still below what a new hire would be brought in at. I've run into that personally. I fixed it by getting a new job for a new company. When you negotiate that new job's salary, you have to make sure you're going to be okay with it for the next few years while the cycle starts over. And people wonder why job stints are so short today.