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Re:Why I Don't Sign Non-Competes by koolba on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @10:39AM (#16638356)
Wouldn't your salary during the employment term be that consideration?

Consideration need not be during the same period. I can pay you $X today for something that covers the next N years.

Re:Why I Don't Sign Non-Competes by Bartweiss on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:34PM (#16639733)
As I understand the state laws - not if it's not stated as such. They don't allow it to be implicit in "you get salary X each year and operate under noncompete Y". A restriction on future work like that would require explicit compensation.

(And as for why people don't just add "compensated via your salary" to the boilerplate - that's an open-ended transaction, not a defined amount of compensation for the year of noncompete restriction.)