Biggest raise

[TallBill]

I got a very healthy "raise" when I got promoted to Sergeant in the Army.

 

[ultimatebob]

About 20% by switching jobs. WooHoo!

 

[Tweak155]

Originally posted by: NatePo717
18/hr for my current co-op to 50,000/year or a 75% raise. Just accepted a job offer

Assuming those are both 40hr/week jobs, you fail at math.

50000 / ~2000 hrs/yr ~= $25/hr.

a 50% raise on 18 = 27 so I don't know where you get 75%

Anyway, I got an 87% raise in the same company but about 10 mo later and 2 more raises later I got another combined raise of 14% so thats decent in one year in the same company.

 

[Safeway]

From $8.00 to $12.00/hour when I was 12 years old. 50% isn't bad.

More recently, from $12.00/hour to $28.00/hour. 233% raise.

And when I graduate from law school, $75.00/hour.

 

[shiner]

30% when I moved into management

 

[Calvert]

Got a 25% raise when I switched jobs two years out of uni. Of course, that wasn't hard to do, considering I was being paid well below the minimum graduates of my year were expecting.

 

[nageov3t]

my 20% raise this year was the biggest I've gotten.

(prior to that, I'd been averaging 10-15%/year with this company, and this is still the first job I've ever stayed with long enough to think about raises).

back in March-April, my company opened up a new office... I'm still doing the exact same stuff here as I was doing in our old office, but I went from being a faceless grunt to being the #2 guy in my office. I think I'd probably get made the co-manager officially if we had enough staff to warrant 2 managers, but I'm hoping to get the spot in a couple months (we're partially closing down the old office and folding it into the new one... it'll be nice to boss around the people who used to boss me around )

 

[shortylickens]

Have only got one raise. It was from 18 to 20 bucks an hour.

 

[Ticky]

296%. Went from tutoring for the Community College at $6.75/HR to tutoring for a private company at $20/hr.

 

[EagleKeeper]

$12K when active duty to $30K in civilian life back in the early 80s

 

[Mxylplyx]

62% on a counter offer. Went from underpaid to well paid. That moment only happens once in a career.

 

[overst33r]

$.50

 

[BoomerD]

When I was MUCH younger, the day I graduated from my apprenticeship, the company I worked for made me a General Foreman...with a HUGE increase in wages. I went from $12/hr to $1500/week. About a 300% raise. Sadly, I wasn't smart enough at the time to stay with the company. When winter came and the normal winter lay-offs happened, instead of waiting for them to call me back in Spring, I found another job and never looked back.

 

[pmoa]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Just over 20% when I switched jobs.

yup just over 20% when I interviewed with another company then stayed with the same company...

 

[Rustler]

About 15 years ago I got a dime raise, I told my boss if that was all the company could afford they should keep it cuz they need the money more that I do..........................He went flying out the office and next check I had a fifty cent raise...............that still cracks me up a dime raise.

 

[Lithium381]

my biggest thus far is 10%

 

[yllus]

13%