Heading says all. No lies please.
Yes because TC is total compensation. You can specify at offer TC, but if your stock has gone up 3x then your total compensation has also gone up.
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TC should be at offer TC because that's what is helpful for anyone in negotiation. If company offered 100k worth of stocks at offer and now that has become million, knowing million TC is not helpful to anyone except for somebody who wants to boast about their earning.
Um if you were offered 100k of stock, vesting over say 4 years, you take the job, and 1.5 years later the stock has gone up 10x, then the amount of your stock you expect to vest that year is 250k. And you should add that 250k to your TC because it’s accurate. Are you seriously telling me that in such a case you’d leave for an offer with the same base, and 120k stock over 4 years?
I guess if you earn 100k, and use some of that money to buy a lottery ticket which nets you $500M, then it makes sense to tell other software developers that your junior software engineer job at Target pays $500.1M.
In California it illegal for a recruiter to ask your current comp, the can however ask your expected comp
Illegal to ask, but if you have high comp you’re incentivized to disclose it.
Agreed, and you should set the expectation.. I recently turned down google amazon and nvidia offers exactly due to this
Illegal in NY and CA to ask for TC
Generally mention both. They should also know what you’re leaving on table. That said, you TC is technically decided pre-market behavior.