---
title: "How I received 4 salary raises in 2 years as a Software Engineer"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-received-4-salary-raises-in-2-years-as-a-software-engineer-19bxpxvss
source_url: https://dev.to/teekay/how-i-received-4-salary-raises-in-2-years-as-a-software-engineer-110m
type: article
source: "DEV"
published: 2021-12-29T03:27:32.359Z
updated: 2021-12-29T03:27:32.360Z
tags: ["react"]
reading_time: 19
upvotes: 31
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# How I received 4 salary raises in 2 years as a Software Engineer

**[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 19 min read · 31 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

In this essay, I'll talk about skills, experiences, opportunities, and mindset. Basically how I became better at my own craft. My focus was always on the journey and I didn't intend to grow at the company. My experience may not help you "climb" the Career Ladder. But I hope you can steal some ideas and use them in your favor.

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**@kkurko** · 1 upvotes

> Great article, I'm running a lot of described techniques, but found a few more I will take a look at, highly recommend everyone to acknowledge and apply at least some of them

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