Not a loss, per se, but if you were told you were receiving $200k in compensation as RSUs, and they drop in value to $50k, you could argue that's a $150k loss.

Not a loss, per se, but if you were told you were receiving $200k in compensation as RSUs, and they drop in value to $50k, you could argue that's a $150k loss. It's absolutely a loss when you factor that in as compensation for the effort and labor your produced for them rather than co-onwership of the company, which RSUs decidedly do not represent.