[Doc]

Raises, bonuses...

I recieved my standard 3% 'raise'. Yea me. Sometimes I feel like pounding my head against my locker. I can bust my butt all year long and get 3%. Or you can do minimal work and get ..... 3%.

Anyway, I increased my 401k contiributions by 1%- hoping to help out that retirement number. (But if I'm here until I retire, I'll end up killing myself first!)

We 'should' get a bonus this year, maybe a couple hundred bucks (taxed at roughly 45%).

Pretty much standard for this company.

I really have to go back to school and finish my Phd or do a career change I think.

[erics_bruisers]

it's weird how the new year gets one introspective --

-- and i feel the same way as you --

-- we haven't even gotten our "raises" yet, but we see how those in stratospherically impossible to reach positions got remunerated --

-- hmpf -- :|

[tcb]

I got nothing. No raise, No bonus. Ain't life grand.

[ranger]

2.2% raise, but a 3.3 increase in social security........ thanks congress, hope you enjoy your fat don't even have to vote on it raise.

[jrfj40]

We get our "raise" in mar/apr standard 3 - 3-1/2% anything more ant the boss has to do some explaining to the upper management.(boo hoo). so bust A#$ or loaf thats what we get. we get our bounes the too last few years have been good 5-8 % of yearly take home.

hope the same this year finally hit the $$$ mark.
but my family had to pay the price I was gone ALOT!!!
not worth it I'll try not to do it again after wife finishes
hygenie school. 8 mos til I got a SUGA MAMA

[Cuerno Largo]

Well, since I write my own paychecks, I did not get a bonus this year and in fact took a 40% paycut from last year due to adding some new employees and equipment. Hopefully it will pay out in the end.

[grrlscout89FJ62]

Big fat nothing.

[2badfjs]

ya get what ya get, and you don't throw a fit!!!!

dang eric, if i got a 3% raise, i might not have to build sliders and stuff.

oooooooooooooooooooooo! everyone here got $100. gift card no matter if you've been here 10 years or ten days

[ed97fzj80]

Our increases and bonuses also come in March/April. Raises are typically 1.7 - 2.2%, with the rest of what we should get going to the insurance company in the form of ever-increasing health care benefit costs. The difference between being a hard charging go-getter and a reactive loafer who does just enough not to get fired is about .3%. There is a bonus based on overall company performance that has been running just over 4% the last couple years.

[Doc]

Originally Posted by 2badfjs

dang eric, if i got a 3% raise, i might not have to build sliders and stuff.

Yeah, but then where would I be? completely slider-less.

I guess I'm still trying to recover from going to one income... it's been intersting. Also- trying to build my retirement plan. Right now I'm looking at socking away about $3Mil if everything goes well. I'd like at least 5 so I can travel. Of course, how much traveling I'll do at 65 is still up for debate.

[jrfj40]

[quote=2badfjs;1699822]ya get what ya get, and you don't throw a fit!!!!

thats hilarious my 4 year old told me that when I didn't get the kaymar bumper I wanted for X-mas

[sk8salomon]

$50 bonus + got paid for all unused vacation & sick days! My one year anniv. is today so i'll see what happens (hope for at least 3%).
I used to work for a well known Japanese T1 auto supplier. I worked crazy hours, saturdays & was on call all the time. Best I ever got was 3.4% raise one year.

[Doc]

Jeez- I thought 3% was pretty sub-par, but you guys are making me feel lucky!

:(

[srplus]

W-2

[crholliday]

Last year, before we divested from the oil company, I received a bonus equivalent to 33% of my salary plus stock and stock options totalling about 20% of my salary (vesting over several years) plus a 4% raise.

That was then this is now: no bonus, no stock or options and no raise until October.

[Trunk Monkey]

Went from a $15 gift card to a local grocery store to 18% of my salary. Big change.

[2badfjs]

Originally Posted by Doc

Yeah, but then where would I be? completely slider-less.

I guess I'm still trying to recover from going to one income... it's been intersting. Also- trying to build my retirement plan. Right now I'm looking at socking away about $3Mil if everything goes well. I'd like at least 5 so I can travel. Of course, how much traveling I'll do at 65 is still up for debate.

we've been one income for over 15 yrs, paycheck to paycheck.
it's not easy, and it gets harder day by day................................


sink or swim right?

i've been treading for awhile now

[Biff]

3% raise and I incresed my 401k by 2.5%.

[osagecruiser]

self employed here...no cash bonus or big raise....my bonus comes all year long getting to be with my kids and attend every event...being home in the am until they have left for school....i did raise my hourly rate this year so that will count for something....my wife got a 5.5% raise and some crazy big a$$ bonus...ahh big corporations...nope i will keep being my own boss!

osagecruiser

[RavenTai]

a 100% pay cut