Binos,
Almost-CPI is a pay cut
Almost-Average Weekly Earnings is a pay cut
If you are embarressed about earning over $100k then feel free to be a little philanthropic with your excess wealth. For the rest of us with a long career ahead, every percentage we lose now has an enormous impact at the end.
Regarding 89, I've head many stories, all contridictory. Perhaps you'd like to post them on the civil air site to educate the majority of controllers who've been employed in the last 16 years.
