[NateDad]

We haven't had 3% inflation since before the crash of 2009.

[trevelyan]

According to the BLS, inflation was 3 percent in 2011. More to the point, the salary increase from 79,384 to 81,327 cited offers an increase of less than 1.5 percent annually. That is lower than inflation for every year in the last ten except 2008.

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infla...