Question about transaction fees:

I started using middlecoin a couple of days ago, and so far got two payments sent: one of 0.00243534 with transaction fee of 0.0069 BTC, and one of 0.00251525 with transaction fee 0.0072 BTC.

Does that mean that each payment should have been close to 0.01 BTC but that I lost most of it to transaction fees? Or does it mean that I made 0.0025 and the pool paid for the fees?