[as-j]

> The best and most effective way to negotiate a salary or promotion is to have a competing offer.

Yikes, who's got this much time? Sure when applying for a new roles, having a counter offer is great, but imagine applying for a series of job, doing a TPS, then 6 hour onsite or two to get 1 offer to take a salary review. All of this over a couple of months?

Leaving isn't always winning. Good jobs and tenure at them can be really good. If you're learning, growing, working with good engineers can be amazing. Just because somewhere else is willing to pay and extra few dollars doesn't always make it worth it.

[totony]

Let's say you normally get 5%/y augmentation, but you can leverage a job offer to get 20%, that's 15% more. If your salary is 100k usd (55$/h for 35h/w), then that translates to 15k. Assuming it takes you (6h x 6 potential companies) 36h, that's 420$/h (assuming you work the whole year).

All this to say, with charitable estimates, this seems very worth your time.