Yeah, killer's right, you need to prepare if you want anything substantial. Managers take advantage of their people as long as they can, and HR departments are far more interested in aquiring talent than retaining talent, at least in my experience. Even while far exceeding expectations, and doing a ton of research backing up my raise, I've never gotten anything more than 6% without having to resort to getting an offer from another company.
It's unfortunate, but the biggest raises I ever received came from my ability to change companies. Twice I decided to move for the big raise, and once I was able to get a big raise at my company, but only when I showed them a nice offer from our competition. It's amazing how much my company thinks I'm worth when a competing firm tells them what they think I'm worth.
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