Thanks for the follow-up. So I found a solution and part of what the issue was, just in case anyone else runs into this.

So… What I was running into was that the number 15,000 was counting down making it look like you get less. I found that by removing the comma and just have the number as 15000 it counts up (the way I want). So it appears that if you add a comma, everything to the right of that comma counts down vs counting up… So technically you can choose between the number going up or down if you add a comma. :)