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Thank you. The salary link is like that, I get 5% if the service price increase 5%. Salaries here rarely make above inflation, so it was better than the previous fixed salary with periodic adjustments. This arrangement is shared by other 4 people, with inferior remuneration, rest of the company (minus the owners above my level) earns fixed salary that is periodically adjusted.

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Some of the detail is going to be specific to your country/city's job market, but I would have thought even if the average worker makes inflation (or less) it would be normal for high performing white collar workers to receive some promotions or similar rises over the course of 10 years. I imagine some of the company's junior staff have had actual promotions with significant raises in addition to low periodic raises; even if you started at the top level, perhaps your own increased amount of job responsibility and improvements to company performance in 10 years is comparable. At least the arrangement appears to have been beneficial to enter at the time.

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