Don Jones 📚 🏳️🌈Today on Adulting: Dimensions of Career Growth. tl;dr: it's not all about promotions. You have a lot more options on your career journey! https://medium.com/adultingforadults (also, would appreciate a Follow on Medium if you're so inclined)
Lee Holmes 
@DonJones Nice post! There's also whole career tracks where the pay is not very good in dollars, but good in other things like stature / power.
Ala - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaries_of_members_of_the_United_States_Congress
There are tech equivalents for people where that drives them - such as being on boards, nice titles, lots of public speaking, etc.