[segmondy]

0%-99.9% There's no magic number. If you're getting paid fair or more than fair wage why should you get anything? Let's imagine the going range at your location is $50/hr for a developer. You're getting paid $60 or $75/hr why should you get any equity? On the other hand, if you're getting paid $10/hr when it's $50/hr or even asked to work for free. Well, could be from 0%-99.9% How much can you negotiate for?

[sloaken]

great point. The details he left out was how much salary is he currently receiving. If the others are not pulling a salary because there is no money coming in, or have not pulled a salary from this for 5 months, but he has, then he is an employee.

[hangryhippo]

Hello, my current salary is way below market rate for this type of a job - market rate would be 6k+, I drew 3.3k for the last 5 months

[sloaken]

IMHO I think your best next step is to make your resume current and look for another job. There is nothing like seeing an employee being desired by another company to motivate your current employer to treat you better. In todays economy that should be easy to do. Be sure you have well defined what would make you stay or go. Make it quantifiable numbers, like in a spreadsheet.