The 3% raise

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<shameless plug>I just wrote a Blog Post about dignity and the 3% annual raise. </shameless plug>

It got me to wondering though how many times anyone else has wanted to list 'altered my life to deal with NT co-workers' as an accomplishment and felt like 3% was simply not enough?

Wow thats good-I got 2.5% -so 3% is doing good.

You get raises?

I follow the CPI, so I have some bad news. Depending on your income level (how much of your income you have to spend on food and energy), you just got (in inflation-adjusted money) something between a 1.7% raise and a .2% cut. 2.5% annually was the maximum I got at my last job, or the second one before that, and I expect that's pretty typical, so you can feel happy about that.

I've only beaten 2.5% when I could show my direct contribution to the firm's revenue.