I recently asked for a substantial base salary raise connected to my promotion from junior to mid developer. I received instead an insignificant 0.6% raise, which I was told to be the inflation adjusted rate.
I just discovered that a teammate also got what he was told was the inflation rate, except it was 2% for them.
How should I handle this? I believe that this is not a mistake (as my manager at the time later told me, I was penalized due to an optics issue). I am very tempted to point this to my new manager, framing it as a request for clarification. But I am afraid this might penalize me further.