You should be grateful you have a job. Almost ten percent of your fellow citizens do not.

You should be grateful you are healthy enough to work.  Many of your fellow citizens, like myself, are not.

1.8% sounds like a pittance, until you realize that the disabled and eldery who rely on Social Security have not gotten a cost of living increase since Obama took office.  Not a penny.

Well gee - thanks for jumping down my throat, you went down smoothly.

I can understand how you feel but keep in mind it is a lot better than getting laid off. :)

I know it doesn't seem like much, especially with the costs of gas and food escalating so rapidly.  BUT, there are many out there without jobs at all, who are struggling just to survive.  The official unemployment rate is near 10%.  The REAL unemployment rate is much, much higher. 

My son lost his job in November...when the store he worked at for 11 years closed down.  There are NO jobs in this area at all.  At least he's getting unemployment.  My husband lost his job a year ago last Christmas...did find another in July--hung in til January this year...but used car sales are very, very slow in this area...barely made enough money most months to cover his gas back and forth and lunches...And as an independent contractor didn't qualify for unemployment benefits.  We're barely surviving here these days. 

Be thankful you have a decent job, and at least got some kind of raise.  Lots of us out here that don't have a job at all.

I feel everyone's pain, I really do and it probably comes across as me being ungrateful, but that is not the case.  I am the sole worker in my home, my husband has not been able to get a job for some years now.  So I can say that I do know how all of you feel.  I am trying to raise a daughter as well and send her through college on one income.  Not sure that's going to happen. 

I will knock on wood and know that I am one of the few that still has a job.  I am greatful for that.

Seems a hard pill to swallow I know, with everything going up.

Teachers in our county were cut 10 days without pay this year....yep....it is a hard pill to swallow.

We do what we gotta do.

After 2 years of no raise, as a senior citizen I would LOVE a1.8% raise--no sympathy here! :O)

I know what you are saying and with a husband not working and a teenage daughter it isn't easy but we are at a stage in this country we have to be grateful for what we DO have and any raise is better than none---now don't tell me your boss is getting a 1.2 million dollar bonus!

Of course they are!!!!

i think thats crap like your getting a 1.8% raise is that a joke or something or is somebody just trying to tease you! maybe they did this just to say they give raises!!

Seniors paid into SS all our life, but we get a cut as Congress gets a big raise.