This is comical in an environment where pay raises don't even track (or barely track) inflation, and then only if you are in the "top 10% of achievers". All of

This is comical in an environment where pay raises don't even track (or barely track) inflation, and then only if you are in the "top 10% of achievers". All of a sudden HR departments are economists and experts in adjusted living costs. Executive staff, of course, is exempt.