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I know stock grants are ubiquitous in some parts of the tech world, but as someone who only gets paid in cash I have always wondered what percentage of tech jobs actually include significant stock compensation.

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The higher paying jobs skew heavily to stock, especially at FAANG. As you get more sr, stock grants can be 50-80% of comp. So looking at salary alone massively understates comp.

While that’s true. Only a tiny minority of developers work at the well known public tech companies.

Any public “tech” company should include stock as compensation for SWEs.

Startup equity is mostly worthless unless you get lucky.

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