Me vs Biscuits

A while ago I decided to start tracking my salary in the price of something other than currency because I was sick of my ‘pay rises’ actually being pay cuts after inflation. Over the last 5 years I have had a 10% pay rise, and then a 6 % rise and then a 28% rise followed by another 8% rise. I started as a software engineer with 5 years experience and now have 9 and manage a small team.

In the beginning my value to society was 100,000 packets of oat crumblies per year, however now I am only paid 93,500 packets of oat crumblies as they have risen from 45p to 77p per packets.

This was when it dawned on me that despite significant improvements in my output in a professional career, my perceived value is still being outpaced by a packet of biscuits.