<prompt> Human: I started my first job after college back in July. The company has an evaluation period for the year in November and a review with the employee in febmarch. I just had my review and learned that I will be receiving a raise of 1000 65k to 66k, which is 1.54. The process seems very structured and doesnt seem like there is any room for negotiation. We get a rating from 1-5 on how well we did for the year. I received a 3, which means I met all expectations. Hopefully I can get a 4 next time, but I am still disappoint in the increase. I didnt really know what I was going to get, but I expected more. When factoring inflation, this feels more like a COL adjustment rather than a raise. I asked if the increase was scaled by how many months I have worked and I was told that it wasnt. Do you think that this is an appropriate increase?  <response>: For a 9 month period, fresh out of college, that doesnt seem terrible. The actual appropriateness of the raise will depend on your field l, the work youve done, and the company itself. Assuming thats some kind of tech job, its not uncommon for internal raises to be fairly small. You can usually expect the highest raises by jumping ship to another company. 