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It's pretty common from my experience, for Fortune 500 type companies to do an annual raise of 2-3% for employees that is not tied to a promotion. They may not
by tyingq 2y ago
It's pretty common from my experience, for Fortune 500 type companies to do an annual raise of 2-3% for employees that is not tied to a promotion. They may not call it a "COLA" raise, but that's what it is. Though, yes, I'm sure some have frozen that in recent years.
Edit: Okay here's an example:
https://www.imercer.com/articleinsights/2024-first-quarter-us-comp-planning https://www.imercer.com/articleinsights/2024-first-quarter-u...
Note that they talk about it being a "merit raise", but that's sort of double talk. It's the budget for raises that aren't tied to a promotion. So the pool amount is 3.5%-ish, and you get some leeway to personalize it a bit..some people get 0%, some 2%, some 5%, etc. But it's just a COLA in disguise where most people get just under the pool percentage. Meaning most people get 2.5-3% or so.
Mercer gets their data from roughly 500 companies of varying sizes.
And, yes, I'm sure there are some places that don't give any sort of annual COLA type raises at all.
- ttmb 2y agoWhen a company says "cost of living" they mean their own, not their employees. So-called COLA adjustments are for Cost of Hiring, or Cost of Employee Retention. The distinction is that it is calculated based on minimizing unwanted attrition due to wage competition elsewhere, and has nothing to do with how much rent or milk prices may have increased.
- consp 2y ago> It's pretty common from my experience, for Fortune 500 type companies to do an annual raise of 2-3% for employees that is not tied to a promotion That's not what I've heard but then again n=1. No inflation correction because [insert snarky comment about c-suite compensation].