I'm trying to make a payroll budget and would like to have
as a variable the decimal value of the maximum raise I plan
to give each employee (eg., 0.09 for a 9% raise). I would
then multiply each currentyear salary by 1 + the value fo
that variable.

I guess I can assign a single cell to that variable and use
it but that seems a little brute force-like.

Is there a more elegant way to deal with this?