Are you actually doing software development? I thought you were an IT guy? Anyway - you should think 10-12% as a minimum raise your first 3 years, unless you think you really did a bang-up job getting a great salary out of school.
Just as a personal example(from a software engineer), I got a 10% raise my first year, 6 months later asked for a promotion for another 9%, a 12% on the 2nd year, moved to a new job within the company a year later for another 10%, and then my first year that they gave me a COLA increase of about 4% based on "the economy" I said I'm out, and got a new job at +25% (This is all based on always getting the top rating on whatever performance metrics were being offered at the time, ymmv)
Just as a personal example(from a software engineer), I got a 10% raise my first year, 6 months later asked for a promotion for another 9%, a 12% on the 2nd year, moved to a new job within the company a year later for another 10%, and then my first year that they gave me a COLA increase of about 4% based on "the economy" I said I'm out, and got a new job at +25% (This is all based on always getting the top rating on whatever performance metrics were being offered at the time, ymmv)
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