Let’s assume any decent company with steady stock growth. TC : 150K
base is king why would you want stock when you can just buy it with your base
A benefit of getting part of your compensation in stock is that it's granted ahead so by the time it vests, it will most likely grow by a significant amount. Given the average market performance that is
But you can invest your base money too, right?
💵💵 is the king
Base is King. You’ll get more increase in annual refresh and bonus.
Base base base!
Can't you negotiate for disappropriately more stocks if you take a cut in base?
Stocka sounds like stalker in Japanese
Cash is always king, you are asking the wrong question.... If you have the option always take cash, but would you take 150k cash and 70k Stock over 200k cash?
Cash is King. You can always put it back into stocks.
If you kept the RSU invested over the entire 4 years and made 10% YoY, your $200k of stocks would end up being, $292,820. On the other hand if you invested the $50k a year of cash into a stock that made 10% YoY, you would have $255,255 after 4 years. That’s assuming you got the $50k at the start of each year which wouldn’t happen, resulting in even less after 4 years.
But what if your company performs bad over those four years? Better off diversifying your portfolio.
What if the stock you invested in does poorly? You can’t diversify with money you don’t have yet. I’d rather diversify with my feet if the company I was working at was doing so poorly that my YoY TC was dropping due to stock performance.
Base is king.