You can’t have that because those places do not exist at scale. Smaller companies do not have the resources for growth and large companies simply do not care about you. You’ll cap out at the small shop, and you’ll become a predictable line item in a spreadsheet at the big shop.

It’s fine to stay where you are. Stick around, know the place inside out, embrace the culture, be the culture!

But, if the goal is to maximize take home pay, the answer is to regularly find a new workplace. That’s the only way to maintain an annualized compensation growth rate that exceeds inflation.