[abritinthebay]

Including the value of stock options in those figures is incredible bullshitting.

For those wondering: the “first rung” is more like $110k plus stock options (which you have to pay for - they’re not RSUs - so calling them “income” is rank nonsense)

The estimates for stock options value on there are also WILDLY high compared to people I know who actually work there.

Very suspect.

[akhilcacharya]

Public companies don’t offer options anymore. It’s all RSU which is yours yearly/quarterly etc.

Even mature startups (like Airbnb and Uber) don’t offer options.

[Boxbot]

Yeah, but then you are working for AirBbB or Uber (or worse, Facebook). Eww.

Private companies/startups are still doing options.

And options are worthless. My employee recently loaded all employee stock options / holdings into a stock trading/tracking system and as soon as the FMV from the latest 409a was loaded in people flipped their shit. Turns out that no, joining a nearly decade old private company with limited stock options and a "mature" FMV isn't going to make you millions of dollars. Especially when you're going to be spending five figgies to exercise.