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by tednaleid 5317 days ago
Chances are the options weren't restricted options that employes could exercise ahead of time and that there was a 4 year vesting cliff. Most people don't exercise options at vesting time so I'd bet that most of the options were taxed as short term capital gains (and that would mean that 25% is actually probably a bit low for most employees with where this would get them to).