[QUOTE=Andy;1988458]Stop posting that garbage. Not going to happen. And there's enough lurking readers here who will do the bobblehead thing and start expecting your absurdly unrealistic target.

The inflation rate is less than 1% and you're expecting a 20+% pay raise? Current US Inflation Rates: 2005-2015 | US Inflation Calculator

Any further comments that I would direct toward you would require deletion by the moderators

According to the bureau of labor statistics inflation has averaged about 2.5 percent over the last decade. http://www.inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Rate/HistoricalInflation.aspx
You can't just look at this year to date.
That said, the pay rate increase I would entertain depends on our gains in the other areas under discussion, but I don't think the guy you tore a new one above is too far off base. Just my opinion.