KEY POINTS
- Consumer prices rose 75.45% in May on an annual basis and 3.37% on a monthly basis, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute, a government agency.
- The sectors seeing the steepest annual consumer price rises were education at 104.8%, housing at 93.2%, and hotels, cafes and restaurants at 92.9%.
- Economists had previously forecast that inflation in the country of 85 million would peak around 75% before beginning to ease.
What happens to salaries when inflation is this high? If you wait for an EOY raise you’d starve.
Public workers, pensioners and minimum wage get raises when the government needs political capital. Not sure about private
Edit: but most unions negotiate in the beginning of the year I think
And that’s what’s happening pretty much everywhere. Inflation is a godsend to employers for which work became immediately cheaper while they adjust the prices to either match the inflation or surpass it
Here in Argentina, salaries more or less follow inflation (they always are a little behind anyway… unless you are a politician).
Inflations isnt new to Turkey, so i guess they must be adjusting them