[plumtucker]

This is an extremely common situation and, as you might guess, totally unfair. The portion of your salary that is unpaid is essentially a "bet" on the future outcome of the company. You bet more every day, as do others. The betting continues until the company can afford to pay everyone. At that point it will be easy to calculate the value of everyone's bets...yours, theirs, everyone.

Your share of the equity should be based on your share of the bets.

Think about it. This is the only logical solution. Why should you ever get a percentage that is less than your share of the bets??

Your 1% is a made up number that represents nothing. On day one 1% is way to much because you've done nothing. On day 435 it's probably not enough.

To calculate how much you should have use the Slicing Pie retrofit calculator: https://slicingpie.com/slicing-pie-retrofitforecast-guide/

You don't have to get screwed.