<prompt> Human: In July of 2014 I accepted a healthcare IT position for a well known hospital. At the time, I had only 2 years of experience in the field and was fairly green. Since then I have learned an overwhelming amount through my various assigned projects and my skillset has improved dramatically. After lurking in this sub for several months, I became increasingly agitated by my employers inability to revisit my initial salary, which I know was considerably lower than my coworkers. Coming to the conclusion that my salary would never increase without action from myself, I summoned the courage to talk to my boss. I demonstrated clear examples of how well I had adapted to the unique challenges of the job. It didnt take very long before he stopped me and said You dont have to say anymore. Your work has been tremendous lately and we need to reappraise your salary. Unfortunately it took five gruelingly long months to get the last bit of approval needed through the awful bureaucracy that is my employers HR, but I just received the news yesterday that it had been fully approved. Effective in 3 weeks, Ill be making 82,000 from 65,000, and staying with the same employer. I cant wait to up the percentage on my 401k and start putting more away each month. Im still buzzing, and Ill always be a loyal follower of this sub! Edit: The response to this has been overwhelming. Thank you all for the kudos!  <response>: Great job, sometimes the longer it takes, the better the increase. I am sure they had to get multiple levels of approval, not just in HR for this raise. 