Where do you work that you get such jumps every year?
Edit: Ok just read the answer ^^
How many YoE? This is impressive.
I am not in the same industry but my salary is way below and I am considered highly skilled (and with prestigious degrees)
About 15 years total experience. But different jobs…
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2025: 168k - promotion still pending on internal politics, 10k bonus, 3k raise.
Still working 90%, but this works way worse than 80% did (work doesn’t stop at 13:00 and people assume I’d still be answering). Considering moving back to 100% to give me another raise from the Fall.
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2025 update:
305k base + bonus, 225k stock
CHF.USD is not great right now as the stock is denominated in USD and all our expenses are denominated in CHF. I guess I need to ramp up the cash saving rate to compensate. The ceiling I alluded to last year has been reached more or less.
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Are you able to sell stock straight away? Because if not, the current FX doesn’t really matter much. Also, at that base, do you even need to sell stock to cover expenses in CHF?
I tried to delete and re-post properly replying this time, but the forum doesn’t seem to like it.
My original post below:
“Yep, I’m able to sell stock straight away and I need to convert it to CHF. That’s because I’m on B-Bewilligung so I have to pay Quellensteuer. My company follows the typical approach of accounting for stock vests as income and withholding from your salary which leaves you stock-rich and cash-poor.”
I see, yes, that is unfortunate. But still, that high base salary should still cover taxes and expenses, no?
First time I read cash poor with someone over 300k base salary 
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My progression so far. Currently 27 y/o. Started as a software engineer. Now i’m in cybersecurity. Getting promoted to team lead for 01.26. No salary negotiations happened yet.
2015–2017
Jahreslohn: 6’500 CHF (13x 500 CHF)
2017–2018
Jahreslohn: 65’000 CHF (13x 5’000 CHF)
2018–2021
Jahreslohn: 71’500 CHF (13x 5’500 CHF)
2021–2022
Jahreslohn: 91’000 CHF (13x 7’000 CHF)
2022–2024
Jahreslohn: 98’800 CHF (13x 7’600 CHF)
2024–now
Jahreslohn: 144’950 CHF (130k base and 15k bonus)
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