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Worked guides to the percentages that matter in real life: how big your raise really is and whether it beats inflation, how to read and reverse a price increase, when to say percent and when percentage points, and how to turn growth over several years into one honest yearly rate.
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Salary increase percentage: your raise and whether it beats inflationOld pay, new pay, one division: find your raise as a percentage, set a target, and see what is left after inflation.Reading time: 6 min
Price increase percentage: find the old price, stack rises, recoverSubscription, rent or shelf price: get the percentage, the price before the rise, and the cut that undoes it.Reading time: 6 min
Percent change vs percent difference vs percentage pointsA rate going from 20% to 25% is 5 points, 25% and 22.22% at once. Learn which of the three answers your question.Reading time: 6 min
CAGR explained: from a total increase to a yearly growth rate+70.83% in five years is not 14.17% a year. Use CAGR to get the steady yearly rate and see what it leaves out.Reading time: 5 min