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How much of that $500K is liquid?

Looks like on average an L3 SWE at Stripe gets paid 215k stock, 218k stock, 34k bonus. So ~53% of pay is liquid (cash), the rest equity in a private company.

Source: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Stripe&track=Software%20Engi...

The equity vesting is a $$ amount though, not a number of shares, so it's less volatile than typical RSUs.

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