Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive

Re:Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive by MajimasEyepatch on Friday September 16, 2022 @02:48PM (#32870412)

True, but there's an opportunity cost to having worked at Company X on the assumption that your RSUs would appreciate in value, when in fact they decreased and you could have worked at Company Y instead.

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Re:Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive by kodah on Friday September 16, 2022 @04:57PM (#32871920)

Anecdotally, I've never had RSUs depreciate to a point at which I metaphorically lose money for my efforts. This might happen at startups more often and megacorps less often.

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Re:Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive by akavi on Friday September 16, 2022 @06:23PM (#32872791)

Then this past year you've gotten lucky.

We were in an unprecedented bull run for tech stocks for a decade plus. No guarantee that continues. Markets are anti-inductive and past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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Re:Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive by asimpletune on Friday September 16, 2022 @07:10PM (#32873220)

This has been the case for a while, but also people who started at FB two years ago did very badly.

Again, usually it works out.

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