You're lucky your merit increase even keeps up with inflation. I work for a fortune 500 tech company whose stock is up 600% in the past 3 years, and they got r

You're lucky your merit increase even keeps up with inflation. I work for a fortune 500 tech company whose stock is up 600% in the past 3 years, and they got rid of the merit increase unless you get promoted or were nearly promo'ed. Even before that it was generally 1-2%, well below even the meager increases social security provides year over year.