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Do it on google docs, and include how much money your company has raised (0-5m, 5-15m, 15m+ is probably sufficient options) and roughly how much equity you have. In a vacuum, this number is meaningless. Comparing what someone makes at Google and what someone makes at a seed funded startup is silly.

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> In a vacuum, this number is meaningless.

Lucky for us, we're not in a vacuum. We're in a market.

Neither. Just inside a bubble.

At least there's free soda. For now...

But since most startups fail, won't the equity be worth little to nothing in the median case? Kind of like playing the lottery.

The equity isn't nearly as relevant as how much money the company is raised. It should be no shock to anyone that a job at Google / Facebook / etc. is going to pay significantly more than the equivalent job at a company with a year of runway.

Doesn't stock affect the money you get from investments? Be it seed or later series.

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