Woot! I’ve made it to the 40’s. Now that I’m here, I’m already in a sprint to get well into the 30’s, by the end of the year.
Original Balance: $112,258
Remaining Balance: $49,402
Monthly Payments: $2,800 (Payments are back up and I’m back on track) 🙂
Term Remaining on Debtor’s Prison Sentence: 1 year and 6 months 🙂
Current (variable) Interest rate: 4.88% (up from original rate of 3.42%) Read More
As I wrote about in my last post, I have been given a salary adjustment at work to remedy my below market pay. In case you haven’t noticed, I’m very happy about this. 🙂
I’ve been in limbo an unable to draft a new budget for two reasons. One, my roommate situation was still up in the air resulting in having higher rent than I had been paying, and two, I didn’t know how much my salary adjustment would impact my take home pay after it got hit slammed by taxes, etc. Read More
My expression when I heard the news!
Omg, guys! Ok. Technically, it’s not a raise. It’s a “salary/equity adjustment”.
An equity adjustment is a permanent increase to the base salary that may be granted to an employee under certain circumstances, such as increased duties that do not warrant a reclassification or a significant salary lag to comparable internal positions or the local labor market.
It’s a little over 12%, but, combined with the yearly cost of living adjustment I got a couple of months ago, my base salary will be about 15% over what I was making last year. I. am. stunned! I didn’t think it was even possible. I’m still not ‘well paid’ for my industry by any stretch, but I’m at least juuust inside the edge of market rate now. Read More
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