# 2025 Raises Poll **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [February 21, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/2025-raises-poll/10009 "2025-02-21T11:26:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/2025-raises-poll/10009/1 "2025-02-21T11:26:56Z")
Its that time of the year again…how big was your annual raise for 2025? _Poll ([view on site](https://community.goactuary.com/t/2025-raises-poll/10009/1))_ ---
**Author:** ![NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/nerdalert/32/683_2.png) [@NerdAlert](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NerdAlert)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/2025-raises-poll/10009/2 "2025-02-21T14:23:17Z")
Raise was standard. Exceeded expectations so got a little better than the company average. Bonus was exceptional, company had a killer year. If I don’t change jobs the rest of the year, my w-2 will be about 11% higher than last year (where I also had a great review and an exceptional bonus). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/2025-raises-poll/10009/3 "2025-02-21T14:26:17Z")
UK Companies are getting hit with a pretty large tax on employment (employer FICA style tax went up) so our raises got lowered this coming year to compensate in favour of a larger bonus (as bonuses aren’t taxed in the same way). ---
**Author:** ![OldTimer](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/8797f3/32.png) [@OldTimer](https://community.goactuary.com/u/OldTimer)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/2025-raises-poll/10009/4 "2025-02-21T15:28:53Z")
No raises for retirees not yet taking SS. Pensions don’t have inflation escalators. ---
**Author:** ![tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/u/tommie.frazier)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/2025-raises-poll/10009/5 "2025-02-21T18:50:40Z")
total comp answered in poll. incr was all within the bonus for…reasons I guess. (reasons I don’t care to get into) ---
**Author:** ![BruteForce](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/bruteforce/32/175_2.png) [@BruteForce](https://community.goactuary.com/u/BruteForce)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/2025-raises-poll/10009/6 "2025-03-10T21:55:54Z")
Raise was above the company average which was nice. Bonuses haven’t been announced yet, but rumor is they are going to be very low, so that’s unfortunate. ---
**Author:** ![Ted\_Hoffman](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/ted_hoffman/32/83127_2.png) [@Ted\_Hoffman](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Ted_Hoffman)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/2025-raises-poll/10009/7 "2025-03-11T14:40:40Z")
We got the max performance bonus. That’s always good. The raise was, … well, there’s a new corporate approach to raises across the company. 🙂 I’ll let you all divine how this impacted the actuaries. ---
**Author:** ![throwaway](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@throwaway](https://community.goactuary.com/u/throwaway)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/2025-raises-poll/10009/8 "2025-06-13T12:52:19Z")
> [@Ted\_Hoffman](#): > > The raise was, … well, there’s a new corporate approach to raises across the company. 🙂 I’ll let you all divine how this impacted the actuaries. Update on that situation: 0% annual compensation increase New job, though ---
**Author:** ![tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@tommie.frazier](https://community.goactuary.com/u/tommie.frazier)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/2025-raises-poll/10009/9 "2025-06-13T16:37:11Z")
> [@throwaway](#): > > New job, though new role at same company or new company? ---
**Author:** ![throwaway](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@throwaway](https://community.goactuary.com/u/throwaway)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/2025-raises-poll/10009/10 "2025-06-13T17:32:01Z")
New company, +23.3% raise. At the company being discussed, the actuaries were told that HR did a market study of salaries and found that many of the actuaries were overpaid, and therefore were virtually ineligible for raises without specific approval by the CEO. Therefore, many employees got 0% raises and were implicitly told that it would be several years before they’d become eligible again.