Hi guys, don't mind me going off in a tangent. I'm in private sector.

Everyone seems to equate progression with a managerial position. I presume here managerial position means actually managing people.

My question is what do you call it, progression of not, if you advance in salary and responsibilities but not managerial. Okay, I disclose a bit. But how would you describe software developer, 200k annual by 33 in a team of three developers.

The thing is, I don't think I see my career path as commanding a department of 100 people. I'm perfectly find working in a small team of three people, getting 200k by working on some state of the art technologies in quantitative analysis.

Have I progressed?