So you make your company an extra $150 an hour by being awesome, and they toss you a buck. And the next year, they toss you another. Then, maybe in year three as an overachiever, you’re “ready” for a promotion. They bump your pay by $10,000 annually, bringing you up to a total increase, over the course of four years, of $7 an hour. In your time at this company, you’ve earned them an extra $1,200,000. They’ve responded by letting you keep $20,000 of it.
