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I agree- Also, bonus pools also decrease in some groups year after year because the new project pool has dried up & you end up in BAU (business as usual) support mode and can't get another "new" project. New projects have nice bonus pools for most folks.

Salary increases can also decrease, but you get something VS a bonus which could be 0 - some percentage of your base salary in some cases.

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My company gives better bonuses for good sales growth but then next year the target gets adjusted and it's pretty much guaranteed that we'll get less. It's a pretty rigged game.

It’s weird how that kind of thing happens everywhere. I remember when the surging fuel prices meant that everything had a “fuel surcharge”, eventually the sign disappeared but the price stayed the same.

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