# So, are raises happening this year? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 16, 2004, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101 "2004-12-16T05:14:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/1 "2004-12-16T05:14:44Z")
End of the year - the time when it happens, if it does. We’re all on the edge of our seats, here. So how about it - y’all gettin’ raises and/or bonuses? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/2 "2004-12-16T05:18:41Z")
Bonus - yep, already got mine. 7 months’ salary. Raise - yep. We get told of our new salaries right after New Years. I don’t know mine yet, but the boss has already said it’s more than this year. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/3 "2004-12-16T05:24:18Z")
Whoohoo - seven months salary!?! 'Grats **sublight**! I’m not even dreaming about something like that. I imagine we’ll hear before the end of this week. ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/4 "2004-12-16T05:26:27Z")
Raise - nope I’ll get some sort of bonus at year’s end. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/5 "2004-12-16T05:45:30Z")
No raises, but job cuts and department/college merges are likely. I guess my bonus is that I _think_ my job is safe right now. Department of Entomology, 1888 - 2004, RIP. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/6 "2004-12-16T05:55:18Z")
No bonus yet, but my husband did get a $2 raise. I’m hoping he’ll get a bonus too… ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/7 "2004-12-16T06:26:36Z")
In all my life I’ve never gotten a bonus. Gotta stop working at non-profits. I did get a wee cost-of-living raise, so I guess I’m about as well off as I was a year ago. ---
**Author:** ![TheInterruptingCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9c0ed/32.png) [@TheInterruptingCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInterruptingCow)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/8 "2004-12-16T06:31:57Z")
Bonus. Served up at the Christmas party before the end of the year, with possibly more to come when the numbers become official. It’s been a good year (actually, several years). As of last night, I have no credit card debt. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/9 "2004-12-16T06:45:48Z")
I got about a 3% raise this year, and my quarterly bonus this time around was about the size of a usual two-week paycheck. Huzzah. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/10 "2004-12-16T07:11:06Z")
We generally get raises on the anniversary of our hire date, so I wasn’t due until February. They went on and put it into effect last month, though. We don’t get bonuses, though, at least not the emergency staff. I think the day people get them, though. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/11 "2004-12-16T09:08:11Z")
It’s a Bush economy – if we’re getting anything higher than the cost of inflation, you’re damn lucky. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/12 "2004-12-16T10:25:12Z")
> [@Ringo](#): > > Whoohoo - seven months salary!?! 'Grats **sublight**! I’m not even dreaming about something like that. Technically, it’s more profit sharing than bonus. Salaries get taxed at X%, corporate profits get taxed at 3X%, so the boss figures we know what to do with the money better than the government does, and splits everything among all the employees at the end of every year. ---
**Author:** ![DWToml815](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DWToml815](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWToml815)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/13 "2004-12-16T10:31:31Z")
Bonus…Not likely… Raise…a whopping 19 cents an hour Bright Side…Hopefully after the new year I can find a new job… ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/14 "2004-12-16T11:50:35Z")
Bonuses here come at the end of the financial year in June. But we have just been given our salary increases. Mine was 6.5% ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/15 "2004-12-16T13:48:49Z")
Raise - Well, I was hired in April, and got a raise at the end of my probation period. Bonus - last week. Equal to about two weeks salary. I was pleasantly surprised. ---
**Author:** ![MissDisaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@MissDisaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissDisaster)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/16 "2004-12-16T14:23:09Z")
I work for an aerospace company (ok, Boeing) We don’t get bonuses We do get raises, however… at the end of every year we do our performance evaluation (based on the goals we entered in earlier in the year) This year, it’s a web-based thing, and no one quite knows how to use it, not even HR… so the whole month thus far has been spent on Performance Evaluations and Raises. I don’t find out what kind of raise I got until last January though. Sucks. ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/17 "2004-12-16T14:29:35Z")
No bonus and no raise due to departmental issues and this is the third year I’ve gotten nothing. Everyone else got a 2% raise. Definitely looking for another job. ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/18 "2004-12-16T14:57:03Z")
Since I just began my new job in July, I only got a 1% raise this year. Next year it will be a “full raise”, whatever that is. I started out making quite a bit more than at my last job though, so I’m not complaining. No bonus though. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/19 "2004-12-16T15:07:55Z")
We don’t do bonuses. My annual review happens to fall in December, and I got a 5.5% raise though, which I thought was generous – it beats “cost of living” by miles. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101/20 "2004-12-16T15:28:11Z")
I got a 3 % raise - was just notified yesterday, during my review. Cost of living, I guess. No bonus in a not-for-profit. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-are-raises-happening-this-year/280101.md?page=2)