Yeah, @pfarnsworth is stuck on some weird point. Wages in the tech industry went down during the dotcom crash for those that had jobs. And some people lost their jobs and couldn&#x27;t get new ones.  And there were some people who did not have their salaries change, like me.  I was not in the bay area, that&#x27;s probably why mine didn&#x27;t go down. My stock went did go down in value :-)