If you get promoted without a wage increase, is it really a promotion? Or is it just extra work? Sure, the promotion might come with a better title, but a cool job title doesn’t exactly pay tomorrow’s bills. When redditor u/InterestedObserver20 was told by their employer that their new promotion didn’t come with a pay raise due to budget issues, OP figured out how to use the company’s own rules to get a 50% pay bump anyway.