I was redoing my resume for my job today (I’m required to keep it current) and I got to doing some interesting calculations…  If I had stayed at the job I held 10 years ago, I would be make less than half of what I make now.  On average my salary has grown 13.1% per year. Of course, in order to achieve this I have had to change companies pretty frequently.  And through the last 10 years I’ve worked for 9 different companies, but really in only 5 different jobs.  (See, some of the 9 companies got both by others, and then there was transitions from one contractor to another, but doing the same job, etc etc.)  And let me qualify it all by saying that jobs in the software industry are amazingly easy to find for me.

Yet, I still have to marvel at 13.1% growth.  That’s not too shabby at all.  And the next time my boss hands me the silly little 3% raise, I get to scoff at them.