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Re:Stripe Faces $3.5B Tax Bill as Employees' Shares Expire by vorpalhex on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @11:16PM (#35078269)
There are a whole bunch of conditionals here. If you excised your options as soon as you could (and constantly paid small amounts) then you own a good amount of shares.. but don't have anyone to sell to.

I have heard that the average equity grant is ~40k of value. I suspect the median is in a very weird place towards the low end though, if that number is true to begin with.

Options are complicated and timing is crucial. They carry real and meaningful risk.

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Re:Stripe Faces $3.5B Tax Bill as Employees' Shares Expire by alasdair_ on Thursday March 09, 2023 @09:53AM (#35081764)
>I have heard that the average equity grant is ~40k of value.

levels.fyi is pretty accurate. A staff engineer at Stripe gets around 260k base, 55k bonus and 360k in stock per year. I strongly doubt 40k is the average - $200k RSUs a year seems a lot more likely (unless they count commission-only sales people in the average, which would be weird).

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