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Google raises for most employees was between 0% and 1%

This is inaccurate.

However if your sample is only people who are on Blind complaining, I can see how your data might be skewed in that direction.

What's your sample?

I can offer my sample size of 1. It was 12.4%. L4. "Outstanding" rating.

70% were given SI rating. The increase for SI was between 0% and 1%.

I know people with that rating who saw a much larger (10-20%) raise. I know others who got a raise in line with what you’ve said too. I don’t know the exact distribution but it’s definitely not “you get 0.5% if you’re SI”.

It is accurate.

I’ve seen the merit lines. Not that many people are at MRP%s that would generate 0% raises for the bulk of SI performers.

What was the average raise then

I'd need to know the full distribution of MRP% for that. All I'm saying is that merit lines were not such that it was possible for the mean raise to be 1%. It requires way less data to see this.

So you don’t have the data but you know that the mean raise for SI is not 1%. Basically “Trust me bro!”

I have enough data to know that the mean raise is above 1% but to not know the specific value of the mean raise. This is not especially complicated.

"Mean raise for SI" is also not what the original post said. It just said "raises for most employees was between 0% and 1%". We can't exclude the higher performers.

Zero people on my team had raises below 1% (one was close). Nearly my entire team, including me, received SI for 2022. The merit lines make it clear what %MRP you'd need to be at to get a 1% raise and it is well above the norm.

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