It doesn’t matter whether you’re making 20,000 or 100,000. If inflation is taking away 5% per year of your purchasing power, then you are losing ground.
If you’re smart you’ll try to correct it.
Businesses do. They increase their prices when their costs go up. The government does. It has automatic inflation protection in tax lawas.
Why shouldn’t you do the same?
I was making $24.5 - in a very expensive locale to live. A 3% increase was all that was available.
Of course, I didn’t have to belong to a union and parade around to get my raises.
Sorry, it’s not the teachers I resent .. it’s the unions who control them. The unions who DEMAND no accountability for more pay and less hours. Not a good plan.
Always had a job .. never had to belong to a union.