{"id":713618,"date":"2010-04-10T09:59:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T13:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/health-care-cost-inflation-wage-growth-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-10T09:59:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T13:59:47","slug":"forget-about-getting-a-decent-raise-for-the-next-ten-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/713618","title":{"rendered":"Forget About Getting A Decent Raise For The Next Ten Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Americans feel as if workers&#8217; compensation growth has been horrible over the last decade. Well, if you&#8217;re talking about wages alone then it has been.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re talking about total compensation, there were actually some pretty decent hikes in the amount companies paid for each employee from 2000 &#8211; 2006. Americans just didn&#8217;t feel them because soaring healthcare costs ate them up.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bc07f087f8b9a7141db0800-500-\/chart.png?w=500\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chart\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>This implies that if healthcare cost inflation continues or, worse, intensifies due to regulatory change or just the current broken system, you can then expect that American workers&#8217; future wage increases will remain horrendous since, any hikes to total employee compensation will continue to just funding increasingly expensive healthcare.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Chart via Goldman Sachs, Global Themes And Risks, April 2010)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/health-care-cost-inflation-wage-growth-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/Earc8aTql7E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Americans feel as if workers&#8217; compensation growth has been horrible over the last decade. Well, if you&#8217;re talking about wages alone then it has been. But if you&#8217;re talking about total compensation, there were actually some pretty decent hikes in the amount companies paid for each employee from 2000 &#8211; 2006. Americans just didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4069,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ZDY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}