<prompt> Human: I have had this job for 2 years since graduating college. I accepted a lower salary since I didnt have much experience and got a decent starting salary with full benefits. I work for a small company and enjoy my job for the most part. They expect me to work roughly 40 hours a week.Fast forward: Develop new product for company. Beta is going to launch soon. I approached my boss, the company owner, about a 15k raise since I am underpaid. He verbally agrees to said raise on a date of July 1. Comes back 1.5 months later during review and says cant do that raise. That we dont have the money and that he would have to go into debt to pay me what I asked. He offers me 13 of the raise I asked for. With this raise I am still slightly under the 10th percentile of my position. My boss goes out next day and posts a project on freelancer a website to hire programmers for projects for non-related project with a ticket price of 1500. I ask if I can do the project and they said if you have free time you need to let the boss know.tldr; asked for a raise, got told yes. Boss goes back on verbal agreement and says we dont have the money. Goes out the next day hiring people for a job that could be done in-house and refuses to let us do it on our time off.I am really frustrated right now about this whole situation and would appreciate any advice.  <response>: Verbal agreements arent reality in business. Get it in writing. If youre underpaid and they wont fix it, leave. 