We all hope to see our paychecks grow every year, but for many, raises are few and far between — or they're so small they hardly make a difference.

In fact, the national average for salary increase is 2.2%, according to the BLS. But that's certainly not the case for everyone.

To find out who saw the biggest spikes in salary over the past 12 months, Glassdoor looked at total pay data (which includes base pay, tips, commissions, bonuses, and all other forms of pay) for people in all professions and pinpointed the 20 jobs for which people reported the most significant growth between September 2014 and September 2015.

For a job title to be eligible for the report, it had to have at least 500 salary reports shared by US-based employees on Glassdoor between September 2013 and today.

"This jobs report is helpful for anyone who may be thinking about a new job, and wants to go into a role where salary is increasing more than average," says Scott Dobroski, Glassdoor's community expert. "What's especially interesting about the results is the wide variety of jobs, showing that pay is rising across tech and healthcare jobs in particular, which isn't a big surprise, but also in retail and food services. We're likely seeing an increase there due to the minimum wage and fair wage debates continuing."

Here are the 20 jobs with the biggest pay raises over the past 12 months:

20. Software engineer

Adam Berry/Getty Images

Total pay for 2015: $105,000
Total pay for 2014: $102,100
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 3%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 23,859

19. Network engineer

Arjuna Kodisinghe/shutterstock

Total pay for 2015: $87,903
Total pay for 2014: $85,360
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 3%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 3,621
 

18. Web developer

Francois Mori/AP

Total pay for 2015: $68,407
Total pay for 2014: $66,365
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 3%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 2,688

17. Cook

Tripp/flickr

Total pay for 2015: $20,000
Total pay for 2014: $19,400
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 3%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 9,159 
 

16. Cashier

Thomson Reuters

Total pay for 2015: $18,000
Total pay for 2014: $17,420
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 3%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 16,375 
 

15. Project engineer

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/flickr

Total pay for 2015: $75,000
Total pay for 2014: $72,542
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 3%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 2,323 

14. Research associate

U.S. Army RDECOM/flickr

Total pay for 2015: $51,948
Total pay for 2014: $50,233
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 3%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 1,012 
 

13. Branch manager

Flickr / Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design

Total pay for 2015: $63,500
Total pay for 2014: $61,260
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 4%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 3,018
 

12. Personal banker

Minerva Studio/shutterstock

Total pay for 2015: $41,861
Total pay for 2014: $40,373
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 4%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 1,063

11. Programmer analyst

Flickr.com/alper

Total pay for 2015: $79,638
Total pay for 2014: $76,575
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 4%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 1,314 
 

10. Research scientist

AFP / Stringer / Getty Images

Total pay for 2015: $85,000
Total pay for 2014: $81,680
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 4%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 597
 

9. Systems analyst

Natalia D./shutterstock

Total pay for 2015: $80,000
Total pay for 2014: $76,575
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 4%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 1,796

8. Financial analyst

Tech Hub/flickr

Total pay for 2015: $71,550
Total pay for 2014: $68,397
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 5%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 5,544

7. Certified nursing assistant

Texas A&M University-Commerce Marketing Communications/flicke

Total pay for 2015: $25,000
Total pay for 2014: $23,840
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 5%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 9,734
 

6. Customer service manager

Bloomberg/Getty

Total pay for 2015: $34,780
Total pay for 2014: $33,051
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 5%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 4,034 
 

5. Barista

PROAlper Çuğun/flickr

Total pay for 2015: $23,600
Total pay for 2014: $22,249
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 6%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 997 

4. Pharmacy technician

Army Medicine/flickr

Total pay for 2015: $26,000
Total pay for 2014: $24,500
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 6%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 14,318

3. Sales consultant

Flickr/Victor1558

Total pay for 2015: $49,008
Total pay for 2014: $45,945
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 7%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 3,169

2. Security officer

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Total pay for 2015: $24,000
Total pay for 2014: $22,460
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 7%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 5,198 

1. Business systems analyst

Flickr / Fabrizio Salvetti

Total pay for 2015: $81,000
Total pay for 2014: $75,554
% increase from 2014 to 2015: 10%
Number of current job openings on Glassdoor: 1,803