Title's pretty much the post.
I work quasi-full-time as a teacher in a country with a lower cost of living than the U.S. but still a first world country. I say quasi-full-time because I only work 25hrs a week or so, but it isn't expected that you'd be able to do another teaching job on top of it or anything. I've been working at this place for over two years now.
When I started working at this place, we were promised a 45$/month raise every year we stuck with the company. That's pretty much the bare minimum accounting for inflation. Covid rolled around and nobody got raises last year. Now this year they asked me how much I wanted for a raise, to which I replied about $130 to account for the two year's worth of raises I haven't gotten, and a general job well done.
Admin told me to do several things differently or better, of which I did all of. Then today I get on a call and they tell me I'd get $45 maximum, but really it'd be somewhere between 18-45 dollars.
It's just bad business practice by the admin level people not accounting for any poorly performing seasons (covid) and not expecting anyone to ever want a raise. Really thinking I should find another job since even if I do everything right there's no way to get a raise that outpaces yearly inflation.