Whats the largest raise you've ever received?

[rennigade]

My wife works for the feds and was just bumped up to the next GS level. She went from $78k to $94k...this was with the gs bump along with 1.6% raise...so an increase of $16k.

Im not where near that and only ever receive your standard 2%-3% increase each year. At best I do around $1500/year increase.

What has your largest raise been? Exclude switching companies for higher pay or switching positions within same company. Just a straight up raise with same position...

[disneysteve]

My biggest raises were the first few years I was in practice, although that was contractually spelled out so it wasn't any surprise. I went from 65K to about 85K to about 110K over 3-4 years.

[bjl584]

When I was promoted a few years back I received around a $8K raise.

[rennigade]

My biggest raises were the first few years I was in practice, although that was contractually spelled out so it wasn't any surprise. I went from 65K to about 85K to about 110K over 3-4 years.

Thats a serious bump in pay over a short time.

[disneysteve]

Thats a serious bump in pay over a short time.

That's pretty normal. When first hired, I had very few patients, just spillover from the doctor who hired me who had been in solo practice but was starting to get busy enough to justify a second doctor. Over time, the practice continued to grow and I built up my own patient panel which brought in more income for the practice and supported my higher salary. It takes a couple of years to build up to a full scale practice.

[HundredK]

Due to promotions, I had a job where I went from 50k to 65k to 95k in the course of about 3 years.

[msomnipotent]

I went from minimum wage ($3.35 at the time) to $10 an hour the day I graduated high school. I nearly fell over when I got my first full-time check. I was used to $30 to $50 paydays.

[kork13]

My first 4 years in the military, my total pay jumped from about $3800/mo to about $6600/mo (75% increase over 4 years). It's not a perfect comparison, because my responsibilities grew over time as well, but in the military we jump frequently between different jobs/responsibilities (often every 9-18 months)... I held 4 different positions in those 4 years in 3 different locations. Otherwise, I just get the annual 1.5%-2.5% federal pay raise to keep up with inflation.

[corn18]

Probably when I graduated from the Naval Academy. I was getting "paid" $90 / month my senior year at the Academy. When I graduated as an O1 (Ensign) my pay went to $1286 / month. I almost crapped my pants when I got my first paycheck. Had no idea what to do with that much money.

The second biggest was when I retired from the military in 2008 and started my civilian career. Went from $114k / year to $145k / year. Turns out to be about the same take home pay because we got a lot of tax free pay in the military and I paid only federal taxes. Pay has gone up a lot since then.

[StormRichards]

When I was promoted a few years back I received around a $8K raise.

That is basically the same thing as switching positions within the same company, which the OP said to exclude.

[StormRichards]

Mine was 7% MANY years ago. I don't recall what I was making at the time, but it would have definitely been considered an entry level salary.

[TexasHusker]

I went from $100K to $130K in one fell swoop once. Golden handcuffs. Didn't work.

[QuarterMillionMan]

As a government worker I get the standard 2% to 3% raises. Switching from day to night included a night differential of an additional $300 per month. Have been doing this for 13 years starting at $35,000 in 2003, after a promotion to supervisor and including the night differential 13 years later making $75,000/year. Again that's over 13 years.

[viewsfoggy]

Started as an intern 5 years ago in my new career working for free. 1 month later got hired as FTE at 40k, this was a huge jump for me. I've been promoted every year since but my most notable have been 21% increase last year and 25% increase this year. I'm now at just under 90k.

[greenskeeper]

job change netted me an increase of 72% 5 years ago