I'm a person who stammers (probably 7/10 on the severity scale) and make as much or more than my top peers. I'm also a contractor, go through and pass more interviews per year than the average full time developer, despite completely blowing some interviews in moments of silence.
1. Your compensation is directly correlated to the company you're dealing with, knowledge of market rates, and negotiation skills.
2. If your employers do in fact don't give you a raise due to your stammer and keep you 'locked up', they are unimaginably terrible mentors and leaders and you need to discard this toxin from your life as soon as you can.
3. Enroll in stammer-specific therapy. The Camperdown speech shaping program is one of the more recent ones for long lasting effects.
4. Read literature about organizational behaviour and power; your quality of code and unit test coverage has very little to do with winning any battles.
1. Your compensation is directly correlated to the company you're dealing with, knowledge of market rates, and negotiation skills.
2. If your employers do in fact don't give you a raise due to your stammer and keep you 'locked up', they are unimaginably terrible mentors and leaders and you need to discard this toxin from your life as soon as you can.
3. Enroll in stammer-specific therapy. The Camperdown speech shaping program is one of the more recent ones for long lasting effects.
4. Read literature about organizational behaviour and power; your quality of code and unit test coverage has very little to do with winning any battles.