@2mnd This is not old news because these are new changes effective 8/1.
For some subset of technical titles, TSRs (min and max) are being bumped up at least 10% from where they were set back in March. People falling below the new min TSR are getting a pay bump to the new min so those people are getting raises effective 8/1. There's also bigger bumps for high performers in those titles and I saw raises as high as 25%.
But these are limited to certain titles. It sounds like Software Engineer and Systems Engineer for sure were included. Project Manager and Business Manager were not included. Would be nice to hear what other titles were included.
Anyone saying they're a "Principal" level has nothing to do with this - it's all about the type of title. Principal Business Manager had no change, Principal Systems Engineer got a TSR bump.