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I was a little confused by that. Unless she had a very large signing bonus grant, she should have been getting stock grant refreshes yearly specifically to prevent that kind of drop off in total pay.

Especially with high performance ratings, she should have been getting bonus over target and extra stock.

It sounds instead like her manager screwed her over on stock grants to get her to leave.

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> Especially with high performance ratings, she should have been getting bonus over target and extra stock.

In these companies each level has a compensation bracket. With high rating it’s easier to hit that upper limit and without timely promotion total compensation can take a nosedive when initial grant dies out.

Not sure how that turns into a decrease in total comp instead of flattening out, unless the initial grant put them over the limit in the first place. In which case it was a really generous recruitment bonus.

It’s four years of growth that makes the initial grant look generous. For example $GOOG was like $800 in April’17. It’s over $2250 right now. $AMZN went from $900 to $3300 during the same time.

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