'Keeping up with inflation is not a raise': Employee quits after getting a 50 cent raise, then finds a job that pays double, leaving company in the dust

Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor

Apr 15, 2024 9:00 AM EDT

Every young adult who has a job these days, in this economy, has realized how impossible it is to keep up with inflation. No matter how many graphs have been published showing how much the cost of living has risen in the past 20 years, compared to the average monthly pay, the gap just keeps on growing. So when an employee asks for a raise in their pay, after being a top performer and doing an exceptional job, raising their salary to keep up with inflation, doesn't actually count as a raise. It is literally the bare minimum the employer could do.

This is exactly what the employee in this Reddit story had to deal with. After becoming a top performer at their job, they asked for a mere $4 raise, but all they got was 50 cents, while the employer confessed they could only 'keep up with inflation'. The employee realized there was not much left for them in that company, and immediately found a job that pays twice as much.

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