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Misunderstanding of Total Compensation.

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Apr 6, 2021 523 Comments

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I see ‘TC’ quite often and as most people refer to it as including: Base Salary + Restricted Stock Units + Bonus

My understanding of total comp is just that - TOTAL COMPENSATION THE COMPANY SPENDS ON YOU which includes:

Base Salary + RSU + Bonus + Paid Time Off + Holiday Pay + Sick Pay + Benefits (Med/Vision/Dental) + 401k Match

There is a significant difference in the calculation.

I’d like your feedback and clarifications.

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That's company point of view. For employees, base, RSU and bonus. Most of techs' 401K benefits are like up to 10K per year. Not significant. PTO is only cashed out at exit. Health care is hard to calculate, highly dependent on plan and family. So our TC notion is just fine.

Apr 6, 2021 115 15
- Dell kfqy66
  
  $10k a year is not significant? Invested over your working lifetime that's worth over a million dollars. Guess that's not significant to some people.
  
  Apr 12, 2021 1
- Twitch boooooooo
  
  Correct.
  
  Apr 12, 2021 1
Hulu LgHB21

Yeah no, TC = Base, stocks and bonus.

Apr 6, 2021 115 10
- Rackspace / Eng Awgh
  
  They wanted me to be on call. I declined their offer.
  
  Apr 11, 2021 1
- Toyota xLtw31
  
  How do people compute signing bonus in TC? Do they also divide by 4 as a 4-year average? Or just add it straight as a first-year TC?
  
  E.g. if I get an offer like 150k base, 200k stock / 4 years, and 100k signing bonus, would this be 225k Tc (4 year average) or 300k tc (first year)?
  
  Apr 11, 2021 3
Travelport NxIu56

This post is "actually when you are measuring dick size, you should start from the balls"

Perks and benefits are separate from compensation. If you care more about those than cold hard cash, you should discard all advice on this app

Apr 11, 2021 101 2
- Amazon iamsatoshi
  
  I think we are supposed to measure starting we’re the shaft meets the body on the top side
  
  Apr 11, 2021 0
- PayPal PayPal.
  
  How else can measure your dick ??
  
  Apr 11, 2021 1
Qualtrics / Eng DyHtT

Hahaha... they got you good OP. Those funny hr people

Apr 6, 2021 93 0
Google updownupto

Also not that, it's total value to you. If employer has free child care and you have no children you get no benefit.... But since these are small % of monetary compensation no one gaf about including these in comparisons. Ps what's your TC??

Apr 6, 2021 59 8
- Microsoft Papa Jones
  
  Sorry got confused, Wayfair says it’s 80k/year
  
  Apr 11, 2021 0
- Wayfair zNuG44
  
  Pre-tax vs post-tax. Nannies get paid post-tax and you need to translate to pre-tax.
  
  Apr 12, 2021 1

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