There's more to it than simply when I got hired. And it rolls back to the contracting agency being incompetent again. Honestly, I don't understand it fully, otherwise I'd tell you about it.

The job is actually with the State of North Carolina's Department of Transportation. Virtually all of the IT people are contractors because the state's pay scales are prehistoric. In order to pay a reasonable wage to IT people, they'd have to be listed as managers, and, apparently, people with manager in their job descriptions really have to be managers. Of course, that doesn't really apply to me, since I'm not making a reasonable wage.

Again, though, I'm not blind to the fact that I am employed and that I did get a 30% raise, even if it was then amended to 25%. It's just that it's still not commensurate with what I think I ought to be getting paid.