What advantages does that have over taking your paycheck 100% in cash and investing in index funds?

sokoloff 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In most cases, you are granted a notional dollar amount that is immediately turned into a concrete and fixed number of shares that then vest over the next 4 years.

Then, any share price appreciation on the shares is captured by you at vesting, rather than being paid in cash (the value of which has been inflated away) and then purchasing shares/index that has risen in the last 1-4 years.

If you are paid in cash, you will be buying fewer shares per dollar (and per year) rather than getting the same number.

	▲	twoodfin 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Right, but cash compensation could be structured the same way, minus whatever would be settled on for the retention value to the employer of the vesting schedule. I get your point. The value of stock isn’t that it’s stock per se, but rather that it’s inflation-resistant even when illiquid.

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VirusNewbie 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Because I get way more money.

	▲	dominotw 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		hope you dont work for salesforce