• zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    As far as I understand it, this is probably not a pay raise. The news says that it would be the first raise since 2016. If you look at the inflation of USA, you can see that $100 in 2016 are $138 today. So if you raise it by 18%, you have not even covered the inflation.

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      5 days ago

      I looked up their salaries and they seem plenty even by NYC standards. So a pay cut doesn’t seem like a big problem to me.

      I’m open to hearing why this was needed but so far I haven’t seen a good reason for it.

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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        Did you look up the policy around increasing salaries? Because I can guarantee you there’s a policy for civil servants that either pegs salaries to inflation or pegs it to comparable wages in similar positions.

        So the people who he hired went to apply existing policy, and he said “no.” And they said “OK.”

        All seems perfectly reasonable to me. Salaries need to keep up with inflation when there’s no disposable income. At his level, there’s already plenty of disposable income, and he’s independently wealthy.