If increments are so low, then everyone if forced to jump ship every few years? Even if you love your current company...Say you work for Google or something. Get a happy 4K/mth starting after grad. You'd be forced to jump to Apple or something to get your 5K? Then forced to jump to Microsoft to get 6K?

How do you get 80k in 6 years?
Hate how it seems that's NOT impressive. - "quite decent"...etc

That's freaking like starting at 30K and having a pay rise of 10K/annum every years. 800/mth increment.