PSA, right now in admin and IT, it’s a pure candidate-driven market. If you want that raise, the time to job hop is right now! This won’t last forever.

If you have a few years in System Admin, Development, Project Management/BA, etc you have complete control of the market right now. Headhunters are scooping people up like mad on LinkedIn so MAKE THAT PROFILE and start connecting. Scraping by paycheck to paycheck sucks fucking ass. Take advantage of the market now! I've seen people get 20-30K salary increases over the last few months just by leaving 1 job for another. I have never seen something like this in my entire career. My latest client hired a tech support agent with 3yrs experience at 100K base salary. Don't let your current CEO pocket what should be yours so he can buy another Maserati. Jump ship!!