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monica · Kenneth Cole

avg annual increase

halleybird · Hermes

about 2%-3% in mine.

That's if we get one at all; some years the district doesn't have enough money. I'm in education.

Aurora · Marc Jacobs

8-15% in public accounting. Once you jump to industry jobs it drops off to basically cost of living from what i hear. A few friends made the jump this year so I'll find out next year what it is.

Farrah · Marc Jacobs

The national average across the board for publicly traded companies in the private sector is usually between 2.5% and 3.5%.

jacL · Coach

I believe it is 2.5-5% at my place of employment, a large hospital in Chicago, but I don't know if anyone ever gets more than 3.5 or 4%.

We have also done cost-of-living raises which have varied. I think we have had two of these in the last year-and-a-half.

We also receive a year-end bonus every year which varies and is anywhere from maybe $200-$600.

-- Edited by jacL at 10:33, 2007-01-30

janey831 · Kate Spade

jacL wrote:
I believe it is 2.5-5% at my place of employment, a large hospital in Chicago, but I don't know if anyone ever gets more than 3.5 or 4%.

We have also done cost-of-living raises which have varied. I think we have had two of these in the last year-and-a-half.

We also receive a year-end bonus every year which varies and is anywhere from maybe $200-$600.

-- Edited by jacL at 10:33, 2007-01-30

Ditto.

gingembre1 · Kate Spade

Mine was 10% last year, and 30% this year, plus bonuses, but that's keeping in mind that I started off VERY low. So I'm sure that as I get closer to making what I SHOULD be making, those increases will level off.

BargainQueen · Marc Jacobs

halleybird wrote:
about 2%-3% in mine. That's if we get one at all; some years the district doesn't have enough money. I'm in education.

Im sorry to hear that, education of all places

I work for an outsourcing/business solutions company, we're about 3%, plus 15%-20% bonus, but uncle Sam takes 40% of that

Kitty · Hermes

I work for a University and standard is 3% - I got 6% last year, so I guess that was good.

monica · Kenneth Cole

thanks for the replies - feeling better about it now! :)

Kitty · Hermes

Just curious..what do you do in the fashion industry?

monica · Kenneth Cole

Kitty wrote:
Just curious..what do you do in the fashion industry?

i work as a "merchandise manager" (my new fancy title) essentially i'm a merchandiser for a private company's junior and contemporary brand. i moved from working at an urban brand owned by a huge company a few months ago to my first 'celebrity brand'... it's been interesting so far :)