Sorry, unfortunately that's how Spot rolls. Last year at my old store, new hires that started just 5 weeks after I started, started at the new $9/hr. while I was $7.75/hr. Basically anyone with less than 4 years of service were making less than the new hires. Then at reviews, everyone got bumped to $9. Likely at your review, you will get bumped to the rumored $10, or whatever the new minimum will be for your store, and then you will get your raise on top of that. So you should hopefully make a few, but not many more, cents than new guy.