Find another employer, get the job and start day. Leave that job the day before. Drop notice in the morning, have your things packed. What? No notice? Did they treat you fairly? No. Why give them the courtesy thay won't extend to you?

Like others have said, shop around, find an employer who will pay you more, then tell your current employer if they don't beat that offer.... you're gone. They likely will if you're a good employee.

An employer is purchasing your time. If you want and deserve more, then someone else will pay it. Fuck loyalty at the point when someone is consciously fucking you like that.

There's a labor shortage right now thougbit depends on the sector. That might give you negotiating leverage. If they had to hire him at 5k more than you, then your replacement will likely cost as much, and will take some time to train.

Son. I'm here to be the dad you never had. At least for a few minutes.

The scenario you described is how it works. How it has always worked.

To get ahead you must leap over your fellow workers by leaving and joining new companies.

You never owe companies loyalty. Just the work they pay you to do

You don't advance your career by staying with the same company. The longer you stick with a company, the more they know they can take advantage of you. Put in your 2 years, increase your skillset and resume, find another better paying job. Rinse, repeat.

You must find a new employer. they don't value you, and never will.

I worked for an employer who had a hard % cap on pay increases which made it extremely hard for them to retain people that they promoted from within. I don't recall what that % was, but it wasn't that much maybe 10%? What would happen is people would work for them for x number of years, get a new position with a new title that should increase their pay by say 30-40% at a minimum, however due to their pay increase cap it would have to basically get C level approval and even then they'd only increase the pay by ~25% at the maximum. People would then update their resume and start looking for a new job with their fancy new title and take a job elsewhere. Some would wait a year or two and come back at the correct pay scale. This problem wasn't the case with the entire company, but in my situation I had accumulated a wealth of institutional knowledge and was in a situation where I should have been making ~40% more than I was getting paid so I left knowing I could always go back if things didn't work out. The last time I drove by their offices they were flying a faggot flag so the chances of me being willing to work for them again are pretty slim.

Find another job that pays better. If you can't, then upgrade your current skills or acquire new ones using online/offline resources. Expanding your knowledge and skillset is more important than diplomas and degrees.

Find another job, ask for what you think you're worth.

Make yourself indispensable, like writing the database software in spaghetti code, then ditch for a while, then reopen negotiations.

If you want them to do what you want, have them over a barrel.

Start seeing a (((psychiatrist ))) . Tell them how your self-esteem has been destroyed. Say how you feel sad , and you just can't bring yourself to get out of bed in the morning. Cry , literally cry at your ((( psych ))) appointments , and say how you just feel like killing yourself.

Keep this shit up for a couple months , start filing for SSDI , and find a good Jew attorney who will sue your employer for causing your " disability " .

You may just end up living like a Kang