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I had a friend/coworker that was a top five most valuable employee in a software company of 500 and didn't seem to realize it. They called him in for every critical project, to bail out failing projects, and to help with hiring. He was client facing, technical, and co-workers followed his every word.
As middle management, I knew he made a lot less than me and others in his position. I told him it was ridiculous. He finally asked for a raise and they offered something paltry, saying it was the best they could do. My friend finally quit. Suddenly the company can easily match a 60% pay raise. Too late.
I know first hand there loss cost the company millions. I followed suit not much later and frabbed a nice 30% raise. All of my clients have since abandoned the company. They're down to less than 200 employees last I heard and fuck all for revenue.
Get paid what you're worth.
You saved that guy by telling him his worth.
He's a pretty good dude. At his new gig, he actually could make a lot more, but chose to split pay evenly across his whole team of hand picked devs.
Frankly, he's still being too nice. By splitting his pie among his whole team instead of demanding that the pie expand to improve their pay, he's still being taken advantage of.
my manager made the same choice, to evenly split pay for our team, when he was offered a higher budget/salary/etc.
one of many reasons I'll be staying there.