09 Nov Brand You Work: Salary and Location for Jobs
The Brand Your Salary and Location Discussions are combined into one.
You have Three Parts to this discussion with TWO Due Dates.
Complete Parts 1 and 2 by Monday, November 8 at 9 PM.
Complete Part 3 (Your feedback on your group members) by Thursday, November 11 at 9 PM…No one will be able to make comments on other group members until AFTER the first due date.
Due Monday, November 8
Part 1: Search for 3 Careers that you are interested in pursuing on the following website:
A. For each of the 3 Careers:
1. Search in the following 4 locations: Orlando, New York, and 2 Locations of your Own choice
2. What is the Median annual Wage for each of the three Jobs in each of the four cities
3. Your responses should be in this format:
I. Career 1 – (Name the Career)
A. Salary for Orlando:
B. Salary for New York:
D. (Name your choice of City 3): Salary for that city
E. (Name your choice of City 4 ): Salary for that city
II. Repeat for Career 2 and Career 3
III. Takeaways: What is your take away from this activity?
IV. Why did you choose the city that you did for Location 4?
V. What surprised you about the salary and/or location differences across the 2 occupations.
Part 2: For Career 1 ONLY, Using the median salaries of Orlando from Part 1 as your annual income, Compare Orlando to New York and the two other cities that you chose using the following site:
Your responses should be in this format:
I. Career 1 – (Name the Career)
A. Orlando median Salary:
B. Salary Should increase to this amount for New York:
C. Cost of Living Index for New York:
D. Salary Should increase to this amount for (Name your choice of City 3):
E. Cost of Living Index for (Name your choice of City 3):
F. Salary Should increase to this amount for (Name your choice of City 4 ):
G. Cost of Living Index for (Name your choice of City 4):
II. Takeaways: What is your take away from this activity?
III. What surprised you about the cost of living differences across the 4 cities?
