Your health insurance is eating your raise

TILvids · Oct 28, 2026

A new KFF survey of almost 2,000 employers found that workers now pay $7,471 a year toward family health coverage, which is up 9% from last year. Wages only went up 3.7%, so for a lot of families the premium hike swallowed the whole raise and then some.

I lived this back in my corporate days, working six to six and watching more of my check go to coverage every year. What I've learned is that you can't wait on your employer to fix it, so I'd work on two things. Build a second income stream so one paycheck isn't carrying everything, and work on reversing insulin resistance so you're healthier…