Getting Back To Even

My company just increased everyone’s salaries a bit more in an effort to get us back to our original salary levels before the reduction in February 2009.

My salary reduction was 10% last year and my company, through incremental increases, has raised it back 7.5%. So, I just have 2.5% to go before I’m back to my salary level before the reduction. Great news!

4 thoughts on “Getting Back To Even”

  1. Congratulations, and I don’t mean to rain on your parade, but you are a bit further behind than 2.5%. Taking a 10% reduction, and then getting 7.5% back works a bit like this:

    Start: $100
    After 10% reduction: $90 (=$100*0.9)
    After 7.5% raise: $96.75 (=$90*1.075)

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