Geometric progression of pay from one pay grade or level to the next sounds pretty crazy. But, while doing research...
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A Totally Crazy Executive Pay Idea
Say on Pay is the new norm in the United States. Three years of work and we are starting to...
Small Companies Deserve Compensation Excellence
Often your HR person is also your benefits, recruitment, training, organizational development, problem resolution and party planning resource. Even though...
When Considering Pay: Everything in Moderation, Including Moderation
Compensation professionals do a lot of moderating. We work to moderate expectations. We work to moderate misunderstandings with incentive pay....
Hey Startups! Tomorrow IS too late!
We’ve all heard the phrase “It’s never too late.” I am sorry to tell you that everyone has been wrong....
Why won’t consultants work for equity? (or will they?)
Consultants doing work for startups rarely seem willing to give a significant discount in exchange for equity. Equity should be...
What are the implications for employee shareholders in the event of a reverse stock split at a pre-IPO company? i.e. employee shares go from 500 shares to 200 shares.
orig. post on Quora Dan Walter’s Answer If the company does a reverse split (the number of outstanding shares is ...
Our Response to: The Warped Math of Executive Compensation
A February 3, 2014 article by Vince Molinaro discussed the pay package of Tim Cook, CEO of Apple. In the...
Equity Compensation: Equity and Inequity
In the 1980’s, some tech execs in the Silicon Valley decided they could get more and give more through the...
Is it alright to not give shares to employees of a startup?
Orig. Question on Quora Dan Walter’s Answer I really think this depends on the type of startup, how/where it is...