get a usable skill and change jobs

emilysantfsm- that's a lie, you can't work an hour a week and get $5. Minimum wage is about $7.71, and I don't know of many people who work just once a week for just one hour :/ OP: Quit. You'll find a better paying job elsewhere. Work at a gas station or something. I mean let's go, there's more than one fish in the sea ;)

If you work a thirty hour week that's an extra 160 dollars a year. Better than no raise!

I wouldn't be unhappy about this. I got a 3% pay cut!

You need to get a union job!!!

OP- FYL, I know how that feels. I've been at my job for nearly a decade and in a similar situation. For those who want to be trolls and/or tell me to quit/get skills, f off. This was my first job and I'm still in school going for that degree to get me where I need/want to go.

Be happy you even have a job

YDI...Go find a better job. They are out there you just have to look. That is the great thing about a civilian job you can always quit and go elsewhere. You also have the option to stand up for yourself adn request a raise. If you are a hard worker than you should have no issues with confronting your boss with a list of positive things you've done above and beyond the requirements of your job.

Tbh with the state of the economy at the moment you're lucky you got a pay rise at all, in fact ya lucky ya working so just stop crying about it honestly, I get paid shit money for a company I been working for the past 2 years with and never had a pay rise so just be thankful you have a job

I just left a job where I had een there for 2.5 years and was making LESS then someone doing the same job who had been there less then 6 months