I got about 15.6 dollars and it only took me 30 years. lol When I started in 85 I was making about 10.50 an hour and 30 years later was making about 26 dollars an hour. lol
I won't put my dollars in here, but this is one of the working tips I taught my children, which I give freely to you now. To really make more money (always assumed non-union jobs discussing this with them)
you need to jump jobs. Your first job is the one you gain exp and prove your a good worker to get hired at your next better job(s). Your first job you put in more years, from there you take your talents and jump jobs until you have a wage you can find peace with in your life. This is street smart advice, no hokus pokus, this is our reality.
I'm thinking most of the examples being shown here are products of staying with one job for a real long time. By age 30 if no one told us ahead of time, you should have figured this out. One of the giveaways is someone new is hired and they make the same or more than you do immediately. That should trigger in yourself... "I need to do this technique to".
The devil here is personal complacency. There are exceptions to the rule, better employers and perhaps yours was once one of those, but it isn't a forever given, things can change at any time. So I can see staying during the good times, but when they turn bad, then you need to perk up and take action. Being a driver (example of most posters here) you have opportunities each day, you meet many people each day, this is a huge advantage vs say a cubical worker, you can foster those relationships into something much better for you economically and physically. I know of people who worked for you in your positions that did just that. You have time, work it. Your employer is fine with that as well, I haven't worked for anyone that really stood in my way to do something better, now they couldn't give me something better, but when something better came, I told them, they congratulated me and that was that.
We want to live in a fantasy world of employment, wage increases above inflation constantly, in theoretically it could exist, but it doesn't. So do you take action or complain? I think this, you need to take action and once you do you can complain about it to, you are walking the walk. But doing nothing and complaining is bad juju for you personally, you are just talking the talk.
By the way good video.