re: Did your salary go up to offset costs?

You have to leave a job for a better one to get a 10%+ raise. That’s just the way it is. And boomers today will never get it.

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frick no. The only people who may have seen that kind of jump changed jobs back when it was a worker's market.

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I fit into this bracket.

I make about $50k more now than I did three years ago.

It’s not nice to pick on retards

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I went up about $30k. No added bills between then. Still just as broke. Not much more discretionary income than before.

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I'm living about the same as I was then, bought a couple of vehicles outright though and am saving a lot more for retirement.

Some expenses have went up (insurance, utilities, land taxes) but I also don't have to commute any longer so I save some money there.

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My wife got a 25% raise a couple months back but she hasn't had a raise since she got hired in 07.

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Post pics of her and we’ll see about the size of her raise.

Yeah frick all of that. I'd accept not getting a raise during 2008, but otherwise I'll go somewhere else if I don't get at least a few percent every year.

Not accurate. Just have an open conversation on compensation with your leader. Quick way to tell how an organization values or doesn’t value you and whether you work for someone with influence or decision making power.

The economic data clearly lays out that wages have risen in line with the inflation. Of course there are exceptions but that the macro. What’s changing is that people are more uneasy about their job prospects going forward and know that if they are laid off the world is very expensive and it’s more challenging to find a replacement job quickly.