...Chickens are gonna come home to roost, and they're gonna have to sleep on that bed of spikes they made. A formula is to use the actual salary increase, multiply it by amount of all workers, then divide by new salary, and that's the ones you have to lay off to make it balance. Ex: $10K *10%=$1K+$10K=$11K new salary. Employees=2,000. 2,000*1K=$2,000,000/11K=183 people to lay off.