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Judi Franco knows how difficult asking for a bump in salary can be, but if you’ve been waiting to ask for that raise, now is the time.

The economy continues to recover on the heels of the Great Recession. As more and more companies continue to get back on their proverbial feet, a new survey by the National Association for Business Economics finds that 43 percent of economists polled said their firms have increased wages in the last three months.