Benchmarking my salary at Series E company with that of other publicly listed companies
Aug 21, 2021
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I work in a Series E company that is supposedly going IPO in a couple of years. Don't know if IPO will happen that soon or later. How should I compare my salary to that of other publicly listed companies whose RSUs are equivalent to cash?
Should my "base pay + variable" at the Series E company be at least equal to "base pay + variable + RSU" at a publicly listed company say Amazon, Salesforce, Uber etc.? So I treat the ESOPs at the Series E company more as a bonus than anything guaranteed. If I exclude the ESOPs component of my salary and count only the base and variable pay then I make at least 25% to 30% less compared to a publicly listed company where my salary would be base + variable + RSU which is as good as cash.
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And you have to pay the blind tax