You can’t make a coherent post without them as people tend to use all sorts of different things to try and prove their point, while getting down to one set of units makes things so much easier! So your base pay by the Bureau of Labor statistics in 1992 would be worth $1,426.44 in 2006. So your gross weekly of $1,344.72 is, indeed, not keeping up with inflation and you are only making 94% of the gross income your 1992 dollars would be equivalent to today.

When I was under the GS system, I was able to get into an agency that had a sweet fast track deal, so jumped 2 GS levels each of my first two years, that added with locality and a *special* agency adjustment given by Congress made it a wonderful deal. Of course actually getting *promoted* after that was an affair of ‘not what you know but who you know’. The system was gamed, to say the least. And when we went off the GS system, there was no coherent way of getting promoted and it was done, from what could be seen, at whimsy. More than five years after changeover and *no one* could predict who or what would get a promotion or even a high approval rating. Luckily I saved *hard* on my earnings as I knew my health would not last me… I did not expect it to go as it did, but I laid the basics down and was well served by that. But if I was faced with a job that paid less over time… then I would damn well have to love the job in order to stay. Those days are over for me now, but I still know that heartache.

My commisserations!

Probably it’s from a hentai game.

By the way, from what series is that picture of the five maids on Chizumatic? The catgirl is kawaii but the one in the back, winking, is seriously cute.