How much of a Salary hit did you take?

[NTXPerson]

Originally Posted by Stelletti

Careful presenting actual facts. According to the media all red states and the south is bad. New England has done everything correct according to them.

Not sure what news you're watching. The news I've seen hasn't given that perspective.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by NTXPerson

Not sure what news you're watching. The news I've seen hasn't given that perspective.

CNN lived on it for months.

[TexasLawyer2000]

Originally Posted by EDS_

Your time stamping comment noted here's what people are looking at IMO:

CV-19 Death Rates Per Million (source worldmeters, data is 1-day stale)

NJ - 1807
NY - 1698
MA - 1315
CT - 1253
AZ - 693
National Average - 571
GA - 540
FL - 530
Texas - 450

You have to consider the timing as well. The northeast got hit first, before we had tests and when we had very little knowledge of the virus. This means that people were walking around in December and January without any knowledge of spreading it.

Whereas later infected states have the benefit of tests, quarantine guidelines, and equipment. All the states have this now and as a result, you would expect them to all be doing well. But even with this privilege, some are doing much worse... like CA, FL, and TX.

You have to consider all the facts.

[TexasLawyer2000]

Originally Posted by Stelletti

Careful presenting actual facts. According to the media all red states and the south is bad. New England has done everything correct according to them.

No one things New England has done everything perfect. They most certainly made mistakes. But you have to look at the actual facts. All 50 states now have the benefit of testing and equipment. There's no excuse for any state to be in such bad shape. But we have them.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by TexasLawyer2000

You have to consider the timing as well. The northeast got hit first, before we had tests and when we had very little knowledge of the virus. This means that people were walking around in December and January without any knowledge of spreading it.

Whereas later infected states have the benefit of tests, quarantine guidelines, and equipment. All the states have this now and as a result, you would expect them to all be doing well. But even with this privilege, some are doing much worse... like CA, FL, and TX.

You have to consider all the facts.

We should stipulate that literally no one has all the facts. We don't know a lot about the disease - my son is an MD who volunteered in NYC at the height of the chaos, later in South Texas....he says we don't know much about the virus etc. we don't even have partiularly good exposure v. those with antibodies v. sick v. very sick v. dead data in The US.

Given a March - now time horizon how is Texas doing much worse than NY, NJ etc? Or do you mean worse than some notional academic/potential bar?..........if that's the standard how do you judge what's happening in Europe today? Keep in mind we have no solid idea how many people in NY, NJ actually had CV-19 ergo rate numbers from that part of the country are near usless.

[serger]

Originally Posted by EDS_

We should stipulate that literally no one has all the facts. We don't know a lot about the disease - my son is an MD who volunteered in NYC at the height of the chaos, later in South Texas....he says we don't know much about the virus etc. we don't even have partiularly good exposure v. those with antibodies v. sick v. very sick v. dead data in The US.

Given a March - now time horizon how is Texas doing much worse than NY, NJ etc? Or do you mean worse than some notional academic/potential bar?..........if that's the standard how do you judge what's happening in Europe today? Keep in mind we have no solid idea how many people in NY, NJ actually had CV-19 ergo rate numbers from that part of the country are near usless.

Well, it's much worse than NY at present. Europe definitely is seeing resurgence in cases after all the summer travel. Spain and France are examples, and they are worried and addressing it. But you know, their rates of new cases per capita are not any higher than the current TX rates. And again they do consider it a significant problem while TX is again starting to gravitate towards the "mission accomplished" attitude.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by serger

Well, it's much worse than NY at present. Europe definitely is seeing resurgence in cases after all the summer travel. Spain and France are examples, and they are worried and addressing it. But you know, their rates of new cases per capita are not any higher than the current TX rates. And again they do consider it a significant problem while TX is again starting to gravitate towards the "mission accomplished" attitude.

You are better with numbers than anyone here. The trend line is TX is ranging down the trend line in Europe is ranging up although hopefully 9-14 was their peak.

[serger]

Originally Posted by EDS_

You are better with numbers than anyone here. The trend line is TX is ranging down the trend line in Europe is ranging up although hopefully 9-14 was their peak.

Well, that kind of depends on the country (France - up, Spain - had a sharp drop in the last week, etc.). But, yes, that's why I said they are very worried.

The problem with TX is that the cases seem to be kind of flattening and at a fairly high level. Anyway, I don't know, multiple major school districts reopened for in person instruction, and others are doing the same soon. I hope this does not lead to a new cycle.

[usoda]

Originally Posted by Rollingon

For those of you who moved to Dallas from California, New York, New Jersey, Boston, Seattle - the high cost areas to Dallas how much of a hit did you take on salary? If you could share percentage eg 5/10/15/20?

This is especially towards Fiance, IT, Pharmaceuticals professionals with 15/20 years of service experience and in executive roles?

Thanks

I work for a tech company in Silicon Valley. I'm a senior marketing individual contributor earning $220k including bonus. I would go down to $190 if I moved to Dallas or Austin according to our HR pay zone calculator. I think that's about a 15% hit.

[Soccernerd]

What an excellent thread!

We didn’t relocate from a high COL of living area, but we both received pay raises. We’re originally from St. Louis. We moved to Atlanta for a year and had to relocate last year. Our companies rewarded us handsomely for our troubles, so the situations surrounding our pay raises are definitely unusual.