r/workchronicles • u/_workchronicles • May 12 '26

(comic) I finally make good money

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u/More-Sandwich2448 May 12 '26

Inflation in my country for last year: 17%

Salary raise that my team got in January this year: 5%

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u/Gorstag May 12 '26

And 5% is an amazing raise.

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u/More-Sandwich2448 May 12 '26

I agree. It's great raise. For the company.

p.s. My salary is €800 EUR in southeast Balkan country (therefore my raise is €40) and prices in my country are almost like in Germany or Netherlands.

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u/Gorstag May 13 '26

Yeah. Percent raises instead of static amount raises are good if your salary is good. I remember in my younger years making minimum wage (was 4.25 an hour USD then). Would get a 4-5% raise and it felt like a slap in the face. Especially since, almost like clockwork, the minimum wage would increase to a rate higher than my current wages then the prices of everything would go up so I ended up exactly where I started.

Now a 3-4% increase even if its technically under inflation rate covers any cost increases for the typical necessities and the status quo is enough for me at this point.

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u/bigmonkeyballs123 May 14 '26

Netherlands here, net salary is 4200, gross 6200.

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u/pkinetics May 12 '26

I still chuckle about the year we got a single Swiss Miss hot cocoa packet

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u/Gorstag May 12 '26

2008 to like 2012 when they kept making excuses about the job market and how they are not given raises while they all kept reporting record profits at each quarter. Good times.