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minus-squarepyre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-29 months agowhat the fuck? you get less than 5% raise in a year in the US? edit: in light of responses, I’d like to reiterate, what the fuck… this is the most obscenely wealthy country in the world.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoPeople are lucky to get a raise at all. Much less 5%, usually it’s 1 or 2. For at least a decade the only way to significantly increase your pay has been to move jobs.
minus-squareJJROKCZ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoMost people are lucky to get 2%… my company set the max at 2.5 last year and you only got that if you were IT Jesus
what the fuck? you get less than 5% raise in a year in the US?
edit: in light of responses, I’d like to reiterate, what the fuck… this is the most obscenely wealthy country in the world.
People are lucky to get a raise at all. Much less 5%, usually it’s 1 or 2. For at least a decade the only way to significantly increase your pay has been to move jobs.
Most people are lucky to get 2%… my company set the max at 2.5 last year and you only got that if you were IT Jesus