If your spreadsheet has all the employees in a list and you're not
giving blanket raises of 9%, you may want to add a column and name that
column "raise" (select the column and then follow nick's suggestion)
you may want to go another step and name the column with your existing
salaries something like "base". This way, if you have 10 employees
with their names in column A, their existing pay in Column B, and a
raise in column C, you could populate column d with the formula of
=base*raise.

HTH
Chris Rogers.