Dungeon Crawler Karl is pretty great.
MooDib
joined 2 years ago
OP used meters, so it's pretty likely they're not in the US.
The time period was over two years, not four. Two years ago it was $996/week in Q2 of 2021. That's $4316/mo or a $481/mo increase in that span. Still not $700 a month worse off, but they are worse off.
I think you are reading the "stuck at 2019 levels" and reading that as the starting point of their assertion.
They are still federal workers and federal worker protections would still apply.