Is a 10 percent raise enough for a promotion?
A 10 percent pay increase can feel disappointing when you received a 7 percent raise just for a standard performance review without a title change. This leaves you torn between taking the principal developer role you spent two years manifesting and wondering if the compensation actually matches the new level of responsibility.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Accepting the lower pay increase to secure the job title for future career leverage
- 2Looking for better opportunities elsewhere
- 3following general personal finance flowcharts
- 4putting bonuses straight into high yield savings
- 5increasing taxable account contributions
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
r/Netsuite1 person · September 2026
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