The 2 Davids

10 Great Cities for Salary Growth     by Siri Anderson, PayScale.com   We all want to know what's going to happen with the job market in 2009, especially where salaries are concerned. Is a raise in your future? It might just come down to where you live. Yet the most recent and complete numbers for salary growth in metropolitan ...

This is from the latest report from the U.S. Department of Labor.  Over the previous year, non-farm employment rose in 11 of the 38 metropolitan areas surveyed with the largest year-over-year percentage employment gain recorded in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown (up 2.1percent), followed by San Antonio (up 2 percent); Austin-Round Rock (up ...

Although the slowing in job creation in Austin is a concern to economists, we are still one of the best places to bo for real estate in 2009.  Here is the artice from the Austin American Statesman. http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/realestate/entries/2009/01/05/report_austin_office_retail_ma.html

ABJ - 12/2/08  Once again our stats show slow but steady growth.  Its good to be in Austin. http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2008/12/01/daily24.html?ana=e_du

I am catching up on the good news for Austin.  It seems like we are fortunate enough to be in one of the best places to weather this economic storm. http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2008/09/15/daily26.html?f=et51&ana=e_du