I've been employed for the past 21 years with a healthy salary. Over that time my base salary has gone up about 5% annually in total. It grew faster in the first 10 years then the raises slowed down as I peaked within my job role. At the same time my marginal tax rates have gone down.
Here is the plot of my personal federal income tax marginal tax rate :
I got the marginal tax rates from the information at the Tax Foundation up to 2013 and at Moneychimp after that
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