I just got a raise from my company. I am a superviser. I got a 3% raise. You dont even want to know how little it turns out to be. Minimum wage is being raised by $1 in my state. My cost of living has gone up also. How is this fare? I have exhausted all avenues with this. Talking to everyone that I can. I now have to quit my job because I can not live on this. 3%!!!!! I was expecting $500 more a month. Is anyone in the same boat?
2006-09-28 11:48:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
I just got a promotion- and a pay cut. So I completely understand where you are coming from with this!
2006-09-28 11:56:17 · answer #1 · answered by chelle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seems to me like 3% is better than nothing. Every ones cost of living has gone up, not just yours. Nobody ever said life was fair. How is quiting your job going to benefit you? Now you have no job and no money, as opposed to having a job with a 3% raise. Maybe it's time to take a look at your monthly expenses and spending habits - we all have areas in which we can cut back if we have to. Due to my wife losing her job (her employer went out of business) and me having 2 back surgeries and having to change to a less physically demanding occupation, our combined yearly income went from $70,000 a year to $36,000 a year ((I am dead serious here - this is not a joke or a typo) and we are still surviving. However, in order to due this, we had to make a lot of changes and cut alot of things out of our budget. So STOP whining already. Welcome to the real world.
2006-09-28 19:31:18 · answer #2 · answered by BRIAN W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Move to a different state. minimum wage is a bad thing and states that have a higher than national minimum wage are just doing it to get more taxes. it helps noone at all. It's like forced health care at Walmart. do you think they are just going to take it out of their profits, NO they will raise their prices. Minimum wage goesw up and people who pay minimum wage raise their prices, people who buy from them have to raise their prices and it just keeps snowballing.
2006-09-29 16:40:11 · answer #3 · answered by roythead3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can understand not being able to make ends meet on a 3% raise, but the question now is:
How are you going to be able to do anything at all... when you just quit?? 3% is better than nothing, right?
2006-09-28 18:56:50 · answer #4 · answered by tyrawooley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is how Corporate America works. It gives you a meager 3%, even though it's charging it's own clients 15%. They get 12% you get 3....It sucks.
2006-09-28 18:58:44 · answer #5 · answered by firebetty74 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3% is a cost of living adjustment - they must have balls of steel to call it a raise!
If there are any job openings elsewhere, now would be the time to send out resumes.
2006-09-28 18:53:50 · answer #6 · answered by OMG, I ♥ PONIES!!1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i spent almost half a century overworked and underpaid.
now i am retired and minimum wages would be a raise.
welcome to the real world.
2006-09-28 18:57:32 · answer #7 · answered by agedlioness 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Join the working class. We're all underpayed and overworked.
2006-09-28 18:50:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that sucks.
2006-09-28 18:50:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋