What was YOUR raise in 2004?

Yesterday's local paper had an article in the business section headlined "CEO pay up 12.6% in 2004". I couldn't find it to link it, so I tried a google search with "CEO pay up". :sigh:

Results:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=CEO+pay+up&btnG=Search+News

Hewlett-Packard: Home of the CEO Pay Heist
Fortune - 3 hours ago
... bonus, a $2.75 million relocation allowance, and price protection up to $6.6 ... My favorite feature of a savior CEO's contract: HP will pay Hurd's lawyer ...
Hurd Gets a Lot Less Compensation Than Fiorina: Graef Crystal Bloomberg
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Target CEO's pay up 30% in '04
Twin Cities Business Journal, MN - Apr 12, 2005
Target Corp. Chairman and CEO Robert Ulrich took home $7.9 million in direct compensation in 2004, a 30 percent increase from $6.1 million in 2003. ...

Chief executives' pay once again on the rise
Winston-Salem Journal, NC - 10 hours ago
... huge numbers of stock options whose value mounted with the run-up in the ... the targets throughout the year because of an unforeseen problem then CEO pay is never ...

St. Jude CEO's pay up 20% in '04
Twin Cities Business Journal, MN - Apr 4, 2005
St. Jude Chairman, President and CEO Daniel Starks earned a base salary of $758,462 in 2004, up 12 percent from $675,769 the year before. ...

Pick up the phone
CNN/Money - 21 hours ago
... with product introductions, has bounced back with hot new products under CEO Ed Zander. ... Consumers have so far shown a willingness to pay up for high-tech music ...

BOFA CEO'S PAY UP 13%
New York Post, NY - Mar 29, 2005
March 29, 2005 -- Bank of America Corp., the third-biggest US lender, paid Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Lewis $22.5 million last year, a 13 percent raise ...

The Bottom Line / Wake up and smell the roses
Ha'aretz, Israel - Apr 18, 2005
... The treasury refused to pay up. ... more efficient, cut pay from the top - and with the money saved, pay into the ... But CEO Moshe Keret is not crazy about the idea. ...

Fargo Electronics CEO's pay up 18% in '04
Twin Cities Business Journal, MN - Mar 31, 2005
Fargo Electronics Inc. Chairman, President and CEO Gary Holland made $424,778 in total compensation in 2004, up 18 percent from $360,760 in 2003. ...

CEO pay rises, picking up momentum as questions linger about ...
CBC News, Canada - Apr 17, 2005
... CEO pay packages soared in the late 1990s, as companies granted huge numbers of stock options whose value mounted with the run-up in the financial markets. ...

Hawaii CEO pay hits $1.5M
MSNBC - Apr 18, 2005
... saw fit to reward CEO W. Allen Doane for a 24 percent increase in net ... 8.5 percent, but its chief executive, Robert F. Clarke, saw his pay go up 17 percent ...
Hawaii CEO pay hits $1.5M Pacific Business News
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That explains my lack of funds. :banghead:

I just now have a job!! LOL!

Hope you're enjoying your new job! :)

I believe that I saw the Sith Lord walking around yesterday. :)

But - it's a job. The wolves were starting to pound on the door. :scared:

every other year or so for the last 5 years. But some years, there are 2 to 3% raises.

My raise lowered my income by 5%.

I may have to sell my dog to science.

All of the basic, fundamentals needed have increased. Don't sell your dog, you may need him to help hunt for food.

That just about pays for gas in my car so I can go to work to make more money to put gas in my car to go to work.

We've had a couple of car repair bills of late and we're getting desperate on needing the brakes fixed. But it's going to have to wait another month or two. We may be down to one car soon.

On the bright side, we'll save money on gas! :headbang:

my raise did not cover the increased cost of health care so I actually got an "unraise." Anyone else have a job where benefits are included in your "pay raise."

She's a state employee for the State of GA. They finally got a 2% raise (after 2 or 3 years of being on a freeze), but their health insurance went up somewhere between 9% and 13%.

Gotta love how our Republican Gov and Republican Ins Comm are really doing their jobs.... :sarcasm:

The best raise I ever received, IIRC, was 5%. That was the first year back in 1980. After that, the best we ever got was 3%, if anything at all.

The benefits were good, but they didn't help put food on the table or gas in our car and the wages were already at the bottom.

I've had a couple of positions that included the benefits as part of the salary. I used the same tactic to up my salary on resumes when salary history was required. (It didn't go over too well though)

for my husband....nada - but they throw a Xmas party. Woo hoo!

So I feel for you. :hug:

Gotta shop somewhere :shrug:

On the local front, didn't know we were supposed to get one. It's been so long, I'm not sure what 'salary increase' means anymore......

I'm sure you know what price increases and local tax increases mean.

Bastards!

I always take a moment to thank my Republican County Commission for raising my property taxes sky high. They are such lovely men. :sarcasm:

And Target has the best prices on groceries. Kroger, Publix and the local Ingles are much more expensive.

And now that my contract has no funds I am scrambling to find a job knowing that I will take a 20% pay cut in the long run.

Sorry about the funding. It sucks when they pull the rug out from under you and leave you hanging out to dry. Been there, done that.

The company I was working for went under.

I hope you find/have found something that's better. :)

I'm temping now but it has a good chance of becoming permanent (keeping fingers crossed). Thanks for your kind thoughts! :hug:

Sending lots of good wishes your way! :hug:

It is appreciated :) :hug:

After no raise the previous year. I'm not complaining, mind you...but I also have them boxed in for this year, as half of my group left/quit/retired in the last 6 months, so they are a bit desperate.

perhaps even mroe when bennies are taken into consideration, but i also switched employers.

I went from having 0 income to having a salary again. I stopped being unemployed. :-)

My customers and I are suddenly in different hemispheres.

my lowest ever. :cry:

I actually dropped on my median salary to 79% of this jobs median salary, from 80%. I'm sure the only reason I even got 2.5% was because I would have dropped even further.

Ow and out of that 2.5% a chunk of that was eaten up by... our healthcare going up 40%(albiet it is low still, although I don't have copays so visiting the doctor is more expensive for me(50.00).

Its funny how you can save a comany millions but their ass puckers up tighter then a snare drum over 500 fucking dollars...

in exchange for the "benefit" of becoming a permanant employee. I declined, with the knowledge I am out with the next financial setback, or their ability to find someone that can do what I do less expensively. What I do is esoteric, so it is not that easy, but they are shopping.

I'm supposedly due for one soon, not holding my breathe though.

very large company, the kind that people love to hate around here. He's worked for them for 24 years, and in about 6 more years will leave them, take his money, and go somewhere else.

My "raise," if you can call it that, was about 100% - we moved, I changed jobs (same profession, but different venue).

first in a couple of years though...

so far in 2005, it's minus 85%.

Seems like a class war might be going on . . .

and uppercrust management have a pretty sweet deal compared to the rest of us.

But I didn't need an AP story to tell me that. :cry:

my husband owns the business. but he will be sure to give each employee one

health insurance increases, etc. more than ate it up. But, unlike many here and in our country, I do have a job. Thank God!

Electricity was raised. I, sadly, didn't recieve one myself though.

Needless to say, although I have gotten very good reviews for the past 4 years, as goes the same with many of my fellow employees, we haven't gotten a single raise during that time, more over, no bonus either.
Bonus's are just that a bonus, I don't count on them, but hell a cost of living raise would be nice.
So why am I still here? I'm currently going back to school at night, so one day, after I have graduated and found another job, I can come in and tell my boss to eat shit because I quit.
The running joke here is: you have to quit to get a raise. Not me, I'm not looking back.

Any additional salary I was given was more than eaten up by the rise in my health insurance premiums and increases for parking.