{"id":577,"date":"2011-11-03T22:16:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T05:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rajiniravi.com\/ravi\/wp\/?p=577"},"modified":"2011-11-03T22:16:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T05:16:27","slug":"has-my-salary-kept-up-with-the-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/has-my-salary-kept-up-with-the-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Has my salary kept up with the inflation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I end up asking this question every March or April or whenever there are internal announcements. This time around after a slew of announcements, I decided to see if the remuneration for the work I do has kept up with the times.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a graph of my remuneration (gross monthly) compared with WPI, Diesel and Petrol. I chose the later as the price hikes have been happening almost every second month (5 times since December &#8217;10 to the date of this post). I have all three measures to April 2005 data as I could get pretty accurate information of all 3 measures from then.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/has-my-salary-kept-up-with-the-inflation\/hikes\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-578\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignone size-medium wp-image-578\" title=\"hikes\" src=\"http:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hikes-440x319.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pretty interesting graph. The WPI increased 52%, Petrol &amp; Diesel prices increased 71% and 40% respectively and my Salary increased more than 3 folds. Do I need to complain or think about this every march then? I think, I am still underpaid for the kind of work I do and abilities :). Data and graph for that some other time.<\/p>\n<p>Data for WPI was obtained from <a title=\"Office of Economic Advisor - GoI\" href=\"http:\/\/eaindustry.nic.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of the Economic Adviser<\/a>, Ministry of Commerce, Government of India. Data for fuel hikes are taken from <a title=\"Fuel Costs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mypetrolprice.com\" target=\"_blank\">this website<\/a> and are for Mumbai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I end up asking this question every March or April or whenever there are internal announcements. This time around after a slew of announcements, I decided to see if the remuneration for the work I do has kept up with the times. Here is a graph of my remuneration (gross monthly) compared with WPI, Diesel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"book_review_cover_url":"","book_review_title":"","book_review_series":"","book_review_author":"","book_review_genre":"","book_review_isbn":"","book_review_publisher":"","book_review_release_date":"","book_review_format":"","book_review_pages":"","book_review_source":"","book_review_rating":"","book_review_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rambling","category-sketchy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/photo-1547139559-c89c59d117611.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}