<prompt> Human: So Ive been working for one company since graduating college 4.5 years. Im an engineer and I just earned my Professional Engineering license a somewhat prestigious designation. I receive stellar reviews but for some reason my pay had never really matched my responsibilities as I moved up. I honestly feel my boss didnt like me because Im not your typical design engineer I am a very social confident person. I started at 57k and have been promoted twice most recently without a pay increase. My current salary is 67k. A new hire level I engineer makes 65k. This has me fuming.I recently had my annual review, received stellar reviews, and my boss admitted Im underpaid and I dont know how this happened. We will revisit your pay in April when we do pay pay raises. I had done my research, and a city engineer with my experience makes 77k, and I work for a private company often working 60-70 hours a week. So, 77k would be the low number. My company is stingy with raises and I knew they wouldnt give me a raise of 15 at once. They have a philosophy of hiring new grads, working you to death, then letting you go when you get a new job and repeating the cycle; despite the fact it screws over the other engineers who have to pick up the slack. Anyways I tell my manager that I know they wont give me the double digit percentage raise, so they need to give me one now, and then in April to put me around 77k. Manager agrees to talk with the director of engineering immediately after our review. The whole thing was professional and friendly.The next day I was called into my managers office, my manager has a very different tone, very defensive and aggressive. Heres what we are going to do, we will give you a 5-6 raise in April and you can do what you want with that information I replied, well Im disappointed to hear that but thank you for your efforts, got up and walked out. I knew at that point I would be moving on.Start putting out my resumes immediately, the work I did is unique and my resume is pretty impressive for a 4.5 year career. I couldnt believe how fast I got responses, almost anything I applied for I received an interview offer. Took a few days off last week and this entire week. Had interviews with three companies, one had a soft offer of 105k. Holy shit thats awesome. Had my third and final interview with another company and they asked if I had any other offers. I said yes, and said 110k, hoping they would give me 110k. Got the offer in writing at 120k! Dude this changes my life.I do have roughly 35k in federal student loans paying the income based repayment plan. No credit card debt, and 6k left on a low interest 4.5 car loan. I have about 8k in savings. I have a credit rating around 740-760 depending on scoring system.Not necessarily here for advice just so pumped I had to share but any advice is appreciated. I do want to propose to my gf soon and we would like to buy a house in the next year or two. Anyways happy New Years reddit, remember you dont know what youre worth until you shop around!  <response>: Congratulations on the P.E. man. Youre undoubtedly a better engineer because of it but your company got away with paying you 20hr for 4.5 years of hard work. Sometimes engineers work weekends, I get that. You gotta do what you gotta do. But next time you clock in a 70 hour work week, make sure it is appreciated. Your time is valuable - especially as a P.E. 