Annual inflation rate = 9.2%.
My annual salary increase = 5.5% (from my meager salary as junior)

Thanks management 🤡👍

Mine was 0% 🤡

... what can I say...

@ostream

OMG... even for private companies?

Where is this heaven?

I guess you I should have been thankful when I was told "you've done an amazing job this year so we're going to *reward* you by bringing you up to market rate" instead of taking that as my cue to leave. Being brought up to "market rate" has earned me 33% more and cost them me.

The person who told me that let slip that the company's market rate was actually more than I was on after my pay rise.

My company even tried to push me forward for a promotion during the pay rise time because my manager left. Management loved that idea because it meant that they could under pay me for market rate for my current role, still with a large pay rise, but then say that the pay rise was my promotion salary increase.

So, I'd have had been earning at least £7k below the lowest salary that we were offering for the role that I'd be a line manager for? Ehhhhhh...what?

Last year mine was about 3%, this year it was 10% and boss told me he fought really hard to get me that, it's basically unheard of at our company...

My boss and most of my team are great, but this huge company and their policies really suck.

I'm less annoyed with the 10% than with the fact that boss had to fight so hard just for that 10% :(