Hmmm... This gives me an idea.
takes a pay cut
prices increase
Fuck!
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100%. I get news about my yearly raise around the same time as my landlord raises my rent each year.
The percentage raise in rent is about 3x larger than the percentage raise in wages. Every year.
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Raise is 100$ a month brutto
Rent raised 100$ a month netto
I've had an exceptional performance pay rise, as well as a promotion pay rise in the job I started 3 years ago. My salary is now only 5k behind where it should be if it has kept up with inflation
And this is why it's important to vote for socialist and communist parties, folks. They actually fight for your labour rights!
aint any normal and functioning person trying yo vote a communist party here in Estonia. pretty sure SDE is the most left-wing party.
as a normal and functioning person, i prefer liberty over capitalism (since the latter always eventually seeks to silence those who strive for labour rights).
just ask anarchist and council communists, they want a society without greed and without authoritarianism. e.g. through decentralisation, unionisation, and fully worker-owned co-operatives.
That is: a workplace without greedy CEOs. and also ideally, a gift economy wherein abundant and rationed by need wherein non-abundant.
But you see, the price of eggs has dropped in the past several months so it all balances out.
Nonono, the price of everything goes up first, and then you get a pay raise that doesn't even cover the inflation rate even though unions are a thing in your country and you were literally striking.
Unions in my country: “we had to halve the salary increase demands because increased salaries are causing inflation”
… yeah
Right? Falling behind is so 2022. Trying desperately to catch up is the new way.
You guys get pay raises?
you guys get paid?
last two times i got paid in tacos. worth it.
AI don't need to be paid, silly toaster.
meanie :(
Lol, as well as all the groceries going up in price, my rat fuck landlord upped the rent by $130USD per month.
I had to push back on my employer at my annual review and ask for a bigger raise. I got the bigger raise. It still leaves me about $8 worse off just in terms of the rent per month.
What a stupid, stupid fucking system.
I think its crazy that there are places where you just randomly, for no reason, get the rent of your current residence increased on you. I feel like that alone should tell you the priorities of your current and past governments.
It's not for "no reason" buddy. How else is my landlord and their family gonna eat if I don't put food on their table?
And they deserve the very best, and they know I definitely can't afford to buy that for them (as much as I would love to), which is why they kindly and cleverly have put together a grassroots community effort and in a way "crowdfunded" their own lavish lifestyle by purchasing literally dozens of properties and jacking up the rent every year by hundreds of dollars a month. It's all a community thing!
They live in a mansion. I've seen their house. They have a fucking pool.
the greedy landlords can sniff it out too.
get a raise.. or even just a tax refund check or one-time 'credit' (like the 'stimulus' shit), rent goes up at home.
business has decent quarter, rent goes up there, too.
it's basically a guarantee. if you have money, they want it all
It's like in a video game where you unlock new skills and weapons but the enemies health increases too. It's fine once you've done a couple runs and know the best way to optimise the effectiveness of your build, but you only get one shot at life :(
Look at Mr Show Off over here with his fancy fuckin' pay rise.
Unless the pay was greater then inflation you had a pay cut.
I got a 2% pay raise then got a letter saying that I'm in a new payscale and my insurance would go up.
fuck those clowns. "paying" for your raise by reducing the employer share of the premium.
I got the new insurance cost today, nothing changed from last year so this is a payscale factor and it the difference in cost is 1% of that 2% raise.
Soooo i got a 1% raise for 2025. I work for one of the largest companies in the world as an engineer.
Why is that Posted on the political incorrectness board
Its just the politics board but its called politically incorrect
Yeah, too relatable and not enough crazy racism for pol, I am disappointed.
inflation goes up ... keep waiting for pay raise
The best part is being in the bottom of the next bracket so your pay raise is actually a pay low
Isn't this incorrect? I always heard that, and then somebody told me no, you pay taxes on what you make up to the first bracket, based on the first bracket, then whatever you make after that you pay taxes on in the second bracket, up to the limit, etc
So yes youn pay more for what you're making above that, but you're still making more overall? You don't actually go backwards. I think.
Except for like assistance and stuff. That's all messed up. If you make just enough to get above the poverty line and lose Medicaid or snap or whatever, then you end up paying so much extra you go backwards as far as available funds. They've got the screws so tight, it actually makes more sense to manufacture ways to make less money, so you can stay just under the line. The gap is too big between needing assistance and being sufficient, you can't get from one to the other. At least that's what I've heard.
I'm in the US btw.
It just happened to me Your first say 10k is taxed in the 10k bracket but the rest it taxed in the next bracket and that percentage is higher than the 10k bracket. And then you don’t qualify for lower cost health insurance so you pay more and end up with less
Also US
Stupidity of the US health “system” aside, there is never a situation where a pay raise “spilling over” to the next tax bracket leaves you in a worse position in terms of take home pay.
The us health system is intrinsic to the US which is my experience though
That doesn't have anything to do with tax brackets, though.
The solution to assistance services is to have a scale where assistance is backed off slowly until it goes to zero, not have this cliff where you make $1 more than the maximum and you get nothing.